Teaching

This class, which was offered in Spring 2015, is directed research. As a final project, the students in the class together wrote and performed a podcast, chronicling Charles Dickens's travels to the United States in 1842. You can listen to their podcast here, via SoundCloud...

This hands-on interdisciplinary undergraduate seminar is for students who want to think about what a book is and how to read one. Readings include historical and literary narratives of reading by Cervantes, Richardson, Franklin, Sterne, Ellison, and Bradbury, together with...

The course is designed primarily for students interested in further study in the field, but all students are welcome. We cover topics, from the seventeenth- to the twenty-first century, in political, social, intellectual, and cultural history. Students read both primary and...

Directed reading for doctoral oral exam preparation.

A survey of the field, with an emphasis on the range of interdisciplinary methods in the humanities, history, and social sciences. Required of first and second-year graduate students in American Studies and open to others by permission of the instructor.

This hands-on research seminar and conference course will take you out of the classroom and into the archives. An intensive study of the political, cultural, literary, and social history of the American Revolution, with an emphasis on Boston from the Writs of Assistance, in...

In 1800, Thomas Jefferson ran against the incumbent, John Adams, in arguably the most important presidential election in American history. Students in this seminar will re-visit the election by researching the debate, state by state, in newspapers, political pamphlets, and...

This graduate seminar explores the historiography of early America. Readings proceed chronologically, from 1492 to 1800. But since what constitutes “early America” is in dispute, we begin with that debate. While the emphasis in this course is on historiographical development...

An intensive writing workshop for history graduate students across field groups. Readings consist of essays on historical writing and samples of particularly effective prose. The purpose of the readings is to help you think about how and maybe even why you want to write...