Teaching
Teaching Competencies
Digital History; Text Mining in R and Python; Information Theory and Semantic Theory; British History, 1540-1982; Landscape History; History of Technology; European History since 1688; History of the State; History of Cities
Courses
Hist 3368, “Text Mining as a Historical Method,” SMU (Fall 2017, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Spring 2023 ).
Hist 6306, “Graduate Seminar on Text Mining for Historical Analysis,” SMU (Spring 2022)
Hist 4300, “British Empire in Nineteenth-Century India (Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022)
Hist 2343, “Britain and the World Part I: The Birth of Capitalism, 1350-1851” (Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023)
Hist 2344, “Britain and the World Part II: A World Connecting, 1852-2001” (Fall 2020)
Hist 6386, “Britain in the Nineteenth Century” (Spring 2019)
Hist 3380-001, “Topics in Digital History,” SMU (Fall 2017).
Hist 5392/5340, “Intellectual History of Capitalism,” SMU (Fall 2017)
Hist 7398-1172, “Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities Seminar for Graduate Students,” SMU (Spring 2017)
Hist 3366-002, “Landscapes of Capitalism, 1870-2017,” SMU (Spring 2017)
Hist 7398-1167, “Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities Seminar for Graduate Students,” SMU (Fall 2017)
Hist 3366-001, “Landscapes of Capitalism, 1350-1870,” SMU (Fall 2017)
Hist 4300, Junior Seminar in History, SMU (Fall 2016)
Brown University, Undergraduate Theses: 1 (2014-5); 3 (2014-5)
Brown University, undergraduate advising: 30 students, 2014-5
Hman 1971, “Advanced Research Seminar on the History and Theory of Property,” Cogut Seminar, Brown University (Fall 2015).
Hist 1301, “Nineteenth-Century Cities: Reform and Reformers in Paris, London, and Chicago,” undergraduate lecture course, Brown University (Spring 2014, Spring 2015)
Hist 1970u, “Digital History,” undergraduate seminar, Brown University (Spring 2015).
Hist 1311, “Land Use and Capitalism, 1350-the present,” undergraduate lecture course, Brown University (Fall 2013, Fall 2014)
Hist 1970u, “Radical Peasants, Rent Strikes, Squatters, and Land Reform: A Global Story, 1870-1980,” undergraduate seminar, Brown University (Fall 2014)
Hist 1970u, “Utopias,” undergraduate seminar, Brown University (Spring 2014)
Hist 2981h, “Property, Markets, and the State,” graduate seminar (Fall 2013).
Hist 62303, “Digital History” University of Chicago (Winter 2011) (new syllabus, co-taught as a lab with researchers from IBM and Google Books, emphasis on visualizing and text-mining historiography).
Hist 28904, “Modern History and the Landscape: Land use and the political imagination, 1350 to the present,” University of Chicago (Fall 2010)
Hist 62303, “Digital History: Information Revolutions Since Gutenberg and New Methodologies in the Digital Archives,” University of Chicago (Spring 2009)
Hist 28903, “The Birth of the Modern City: Paris, London, and Chicago in the Nineteenth Century,” University of Chicago (Spring 2009)
Graduate Student Instructor experience: History 7b, American History, 1865-2000, Leon Litwack, Instructor (Spring 2007); Architecture 170, Architecture History, 2000 B. C. E. to 1300 A. D., Stephen Tobriner, Instructor (2003-2004); Environmental Design 169a and 169b, The History of the Built Environment in America, 1600-1900 and 1900-the present; Paul Groth, Instructor (2002-2003)
Various readerships in post-1865 American History (2004-2007)
LANGUAGES
French, German, Latin, Ancient Greek (reading)