I am an instructor in the History Department and have been at Loyola since 2017. I am originally from Southern California and moved to New Orleans in 2010 to start my PhD program next door at Tulane. After earning a PhD in 2016, I decided to make New Orleans my home and opened up a business (Broad Street Cider) and started teaching at Loyola. My research interests revolve around modern imperialism, international marketing, and bureaucracy. My teaching style revolves around the upside-down classroom - where students have a good amount of leeway and help to construct a course as we go along. Also, I wear balloons in pantyhose during Mardi Gras on top of my head. It works very well - someone has yelled at me from a Muses float.
Degrees
Tulane University: PhD, History, 2016 & MA, History, 2012 California State University, Fullerton: BA, Political Science, 2006 Mount San Jacinto College, Menifee, CA: AA, 2003
Classes Taught
Modern Empires of the Pacific World (traditional and online asynchronous):
The Pacific course features important scholarship about 19th and 20th century imperialisms in Asia, focusing on the British in India and Southeast Asia, with some readings on Japanese, French, American and German Empires. The European course takes a broader focus on European interactions with the rest of the world, focusing on Africa and Asia.
Global History I & II (traditional and online asynchronous):
An overview of global history designed to be of use to students in all majors and degree programs and to serve as one of the foundational elements of a liberal arts education. To facilitate active student engagement, the students help frame the overall course and the topics at hand, making the course a collaborative learning experience for everyone involved.
Money as Meaning (traditional and online asynchronous):
The course features examples and scholarship about a broad a long history of money. Students taking the course will become familiar with questions like: What is money? Where does it come from? How does it work? Module topics have included counterfeiting, stock market crashes, smuggling, money as art, and Islamic lending. The second half of class utilizes an open syllabus where students have an active role in choosing topics and assigning readings.
The Historian’s Craft (traditional)
This course serves as an introduction to the art and craft of history. Designed for incoming history majors, the course provides an introduction and overview of the important features of the historian’s craft from conceptualizing ideas to research methods, to critical reading and writing, to the philosophy of history, and to the basic concepts of historiography.
Areas of Expertise
Research Interests: British Empire, administration, modern Africa, Britain and the world, Britishness and whiteness, economic history, bureaucracy, modern empire and imperialism, international sales and marketing
Teaching Interests: global imperialism, world history, economic history, colonial theory, British history, modern European history, African history, Australasian history, history of business, and international marketing.