My teaching areas lie in Early
Modern Europe, New France, the Atlantic World, and women and gender. I bring to
Grenfell College years of experience that I acquired through my temporary
appointments at St. Mary’s University, St. Cloud State University, and the
University of Toronto at Scarborough.
I am very happy to be part of the MUN system and especially to be at the
Grenfell College campus. I appreciate the strong sense of community here and the
small class size. In class, I employ a wide variety of mediums, including Power
Point presentations, biography, film clips, iconography and art history,
literature, and drama. I also make use of online forums and course websites. I
use primary historical sources as often as I can, a technique that I feel
encourages a deeper historical understanding among students, allowing them to
incorporate their own analysis into the course. My assignments reinforce that
goal, as virtually all of the exams and written requirements in my courses
involve the use of primary sources.
I am a highly committed teacher. I very much enjoy teaching and I want students to learn and do well. I perceive my role as a history teacher as one that not only provides students with a skills set that they need (writing, critical analysis, and verbal communication), but also I strive to convey to students the profound complexity of the historical record and the historical experience and I seek to impart to students a grasp of the craft of the historian.
last updated: August 15, 2006