Teaching

My teaching spans American history and the history of political, legal, and religious thought in the United States and Europe. I have taught courses and advised theses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in history, political science, theology, and interdisciplinary programs, both in class and online. I have developed new courses at the intersection of religion and politics and have co-taught with philosophers and theologians. My courses offer intensive writing sessions, historical methods, seminar-style discussions, digital and archival research, and public speaking opportunities, among other transferrable skills. According to student reviews, 97% would take my courses again.

Villanova University

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

“The Augustine and Culture Seminar: Ancients”

Ave Maria University

Department of History

Honors Advisor, Senior Honors Thesis: “Pope Pius IX and his Syllabus” (Fall 2015); “For the Roman Lake and the Roman Faith: The Knights of St. John at the Great Siege of Malta” (Fall 2017)
Advisor, Senior Seminar: “King Cotton at the Vatican: Confederate-Vatican Relations During the Civil War” (Fall 2017); “Republican Motherhood: Mixing the Political and Domestic Spheres” (Fall 2017); “Against the Consensus of the Faithful: Humanae Vitae in America” (Fall 2017)
“History Internship” (Fall 2018)
“Religion and Politics in America” (Fall 2016; Fall 2018)
“American Catholic History” (Fall 2015, co-taught with Michael Novak; Fall 2017)
“Church and State in Early America” (Fall 2014)
“History of the United States II” (Spring 2018)
“History of the United States I” (Spring 2017)
“Intermediate History of the United States” (Spring 2015; Spring 2016)
“Western Civilization II Honors” (Spring 2016)
“Western Civilization II” (Spring 2015; Spring 2016 with online hybrid; Spring 2017)
“Western Civilization I” (Fall 2014; Fall 2015; Fall 2016)

Department of Theology

Second Reader, Master’s Thesis: “The Continuity of Religious Freedom in the Catholic Tradition” (Spring 2017)

Interdisciplinary Program

“Western Civilization & Culture II Honors” (Spring 2018, co-taught)
“Western Civilization & Culture II” (Spring 2018)
“Western Civilization & Culture I Honors” (Fall 2017; Fall 2018, co-taught)
“Western Civilization & Culture I” (Fall 2017; Fall 2018)

Princeton University

Department of History

“The United States Since 1974,” undergraduate precept (Spring 2014)

Department of Politics

“Religion and the American Founding,” graduate course (Spring 2014)

University of Cambridge

Faculty of History

“History of Political Thought to c.1700,” Faculty of History undergraduate supervisions (Lent 2013)

Northwestern University