Teaching

I am an award-winning teacher. I was awarded the Faculty of Social Science Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at Western University in 2023 and the King’s Award of Excellence in Teaching for Part-Time Faculty from King’s University College in 2022.

My teaching interests focus on global history, with specializations in modern European, Soviet and American history. I have taught courses on European international relations, the history of international relations theory, the history of totalitarianism, the history of Western Civilization, and the history of modern revolution. In addition, I have taught courses on the history of the Soviet Union, modern Germany, the United States, the First and Second World Wars and early modern Europe. I currently am a part-time assistant professor in history at Western University and a sessional lecturer at King’s University College. Previously, I have taught at the University of Guelph, Trent University (Durham) and McMaster University, and have served as a guest lecturer at Trent University.

Along with the courses taught listed below, I am able to be involved in graduate education as a secondary reader or examiner for M.A. Cognates and Theses or as the supervisor of an M.A. Cognate at Western University in its Department of History and its Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism. Topics I’ve supervised or served as a second reader include the Comintern and Indian communism, women in the Russian revolutionary tradition of the 19th century, Wilsonianism and the mandates system, and the treatment of Roma peoples in Romania. I have also served as a minor field examiner in 20th Century Communism and Soviet History. 

Courses taught:

Western University:

History 2147A: Nazi Germany

History 2705E: The Western Tradition in International Relations Theory and Practice

History 4796G: Selected Topics in International and/or Comparative History: Comparative Communisms in the Twentieth Century

History 4796G: Selected Topics in International and/or Comparative History: Russia, the Soviet Union and the Global South

International Relations 4703G: Contemporary Challenges in the Global Community I

King’s University College:

History 1404E: Hitler, Stalin & Mussolini: The Totalitarian Age

History 1812F: Revolution in World History

History 2151A: The First World War: A Global Revolution

History 2152B: The Second World War as World History

History 2179: The Two World Wars

History 2301E: The United States: Colonial Era to the Present

History 2403E: England & Europe in the 16th and 17th Century

History 2432G: Age of Empire: Europe in the Early Modern World

History 3496G: Selected Topics in European History: The Uses and Abuses of History in Russia and Eastern Europe

History 4499G: Selected Topics in European History: Russia and the West

McMaster University:

History 2II3: Modern Germany

History 3I03: The International Relations of the European Powers, 1870-1945

University of Guelph:

HIST 3270: Revolution in the Modern World

Trent University:

History 1202H: Western Civilization from 1800 to the Present (taught at Durham Campus)

History 3250Y: The Soviet Experiment (taught at Durham Campus)

History 4600: The Soviet Union and the Second World War (guest lecturer for five weeks)