Active in the college classroom for ten years, I have taught and assisted with courses ranging from introductory surveys of United States history and Latin American history, to upper-division classes on the American West and the history of Women and Gender in the United States. In 2018 I completed 40 additional hours of coursework and pedagogical supervision to earn a Certificate in College Teaching from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

In 2021 I joined the Upper School Faculty at Louisville Collegiate School, where I teach upperclass students in American Studies and English. This year we are digging into texts by Frederick Douglass, Lauren Groff, George Orwell, and more.

My writing on teaching/pedagogy:

• “Mindfulness in the Classroom: A Conversation,” Erstwhile Blog, October 2017

• “Creating a Teaching Portfolio: An Introduction,” GRADHACKER Blog, Inside Higher Ed, April 2014

Recent reading on teaching/pedagogy:

• Peter Schmidt, “This is the Solution to America’s Literacy Crisis, and It’s a Lot of Fun,” guest essay, New York Times, August 16, 2026

• Daniel T. Willingham, How to Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make it Easy (Gallery Books, 2023).

• Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (Norton, 2018)

• James M. Lang, Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning (Jossey-Bass, 2016)

• John Palfrey, Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces: Diversity and Free Expression in Higher Education (MIT Press, 2017)

• Dena R. Samuels, The Culturally Inclusive Educator (Teacher’s College Press, 2014)