History Professor
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I hold a Ph.D. in Modern European History from the University of Mississippi where I trained under and collaborated with Dr.
Grayzel, Professor of History at Utah State University and Oxford University. In addition to having a Ph.D. major field in Modern European History, I have minor fields in Early-Modern Europe and Modern East Asia. I have extensive teaching experience around the world, including the United States, the Middle East and North Africa, and I have a working knowledge of French, Mandarin Chinese, and Arabic. After returning to the US during the COVID pandemic, I have been teaching both Secondary and University courses in Philadelphia.
I have over 15 years of experience teaching and working with diverse student populations, and I have taught extensively in European history, American History, and Western Civilization. At the University of Mississippi, I taught on a mixed campus where half of the students were affluent and graduated from elite prep academies, and the other half were working class and were often the first generation in their families to attend college. While at the University of Mississippi, I also worked on the Making Publics (MaPs) project through McGill University and funded by the Canadian Government, which took cutting-edge academic research from college level and made it into accessible lesson plans for Canadian High School students.
College, I taught urban and economically disadvantaged students where I had to often craft basic college methodologies into my normal lectures to help students catch up to the appropriate college levels. While at Massasoit, I also won a Federal Project Stars Title III Grant for teaching, and I became involved with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to integrate at-risk high school dropouts into the college curriculum.
Institute of Technology, I took my love of history and the humanities and created classes primarily for Science, Engineering, and Architecture students, where I tailored my material to show them that historical analysis and awareness could indeed benefit their careers in science and technology fields. While at the American University in Cairo, I interacted with a diverse group of Egyptian and MENA region students, and I often reformed my classes to help debate and complicate the issues of modern political and economic systems that they were already so interested in. I am familiar with the challenges of teaching in large, 400-student lecture halls, small lecture and seminar classes, advanced research courses, as well as online and hybridized courses on Angel, Blackboard, NoorSpace, Jupiter, and Canvas systems.
I have long been involved in and have a love for the shared governance and administration of schools, and I have a passion for the pedagogy and direction of schools. At all of my schools, I have been an integral member of many numerous committees, assessing department programs and faculty performance, helping in various school accreditation processes, processing grant applications, and in running school wide-events and conferences. I have also frequently traveled to high schools to give guest talks and help recruit future University students.
While in Kuwait, I took on a more administrative role in a Private School system with more than 1600 staff, 9000 students and 30 school branches, where I crafted the curriculum, trained teachers, and accredited the schools and Institute through COBIS and City&Guilds in the UK.
I am also currently active in the academic community pursuing and presenting research on terrorism in Modern Britain. My research focuses on radical political movements, the rise of the modern paternalistic state, and the rise of modern terrorism. My dissertation investigated public reactions to Anarchist violence in England at the turn of the century.
Although the Anarchist movement in Britain was in reality extremely limited, the British public’s perceptions of Anarchist violence and its potential dangers were more important than the Anarchist movement itself. I concluded that the public’s reactions to a few widely publicized Anarchist crimes played a key role in dismantling the existing Liberal state and laid the foundations for the modern British welfare state. Britons viewed the turn of the century as a new era that the institutions and norms of traditional Liberalism were ill-prepared to handle.
The widespread fear of Anarchists and other radical political movements of the time led the public to abandon liberty and individualism as dangerous. Thus, in the light of these emerging dangers the British public demanded a more paternalistic and interventionist state that better protected the nation from the perils of radicalism. Currently, I am preparing papers for conferences and am adapting my dissertation for publication as a manuscript.
A portion of my dissertation was recently published by Palgrave Press UK as a chapter in Evil, Barbarism and Empire: Britain and Abroad, c. 1850- c. 2000. I remain abreast with current research in Modern British history, and I continue to pursue research into radical political movements in Great Britain and their broader influence on public discourse. I bring the same intellectual curiosity that characterizes my research into the classroom to challenge my students with thought-provoking discussions of historical topics and their relationships to modern events.
