Teaching

History 99: Senior Thesis Tutorial

Semester: 

N/A

Offered: 

2014

The full-year Senior Thesis Tutorial provides practical guidance and writing advice to senior History concentrators producing a thesis.

History 13b: The History of International Organizations

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2014

This seminar introduces students to the history of international organizations. The course seeks to understand how and why international organizations have come to play such a significant role in the politics, economics, and culture of the modern world. The course considers the historical factors that have determined the structure, ethos, and efficacy of particular organizations and why international organizations arose in the first place. The course will combine that historical awareness with assessments of broader attitudes towards international organizations. That combination will...

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History 1079: The History of News

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2014

This lecture course provided an overview of the history of news from the invention of modern newspapers in the seventeenth century to the multiplication of media today. The class also experimented with digital assignments and collaborative student projects on the history of news ranging from GIS to tagging, wikis, and creative writing. I received the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching for my work in this course.

History 99: Senior Thesis Tutorial

Semester: 

N/A

Offered: 

2013

The full-year Senior Thesis Tutorial provides practical guidance and writing advice to senior History concentrators producing a thesis. I received the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching for my work in this course.

History 92r: History Lab

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2013

History 92r, "History Lab," is a new course to be offered in fall 2013 that offers History concentrators and other students a chance to spend a semester working with History faculty on faculty research projects. My project concerns the history of news.

Description. This project allows students the opportunity to develop and implement a digital project on the history of news. Digital tools are particularly promising for studying the history of news – a subject with so many sources that we can only start to access, catalog, and analyze many of them with digitization and...

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History 79i Breaking Headlines: The History of News

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2013

This reading seminar introduces students to the major themes and approaches to the historical study of the media from the invention of modern newspapers in the seventeenth century to the multiplication of media today.

History 99: Senior Thesis Tutorial

Semester: 

N/A

Offered: 

2012

The full-year Senior Thesis Tutorial provides practical guidance and writing advice to senior History concentrators producing a thesis. I received the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching for my work in this course.

History 3920hf: Colloquium on Teaching Practices

Semester: 

N/A

Offered: 

2011

Co-taught with Professor Peter Gordon.

This course presents an introduction to teaching history, both at Harvard and beyond. It is compulsory for first-time graduate teaching fellows in the Harvard History Department. Through practice, observation, reading, and discussion, students learn a range of techniques and styles of teaching. For my work, I received the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching.

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History 79i: Breaking Headlines: The History of News

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2011

In a new initiative launched this year, the Harvard History Department awarded me the opportunity to design and teach a reading seminar to Harvard undergraduates on a topic based on my research.

This reading seminar introduces students to the major themes and approaches to the historical study of news from the ‘invention’ of modern newspapers in the seventeenth century to the multiplication of media today. Topics include journalism, propaganda, public opinion, news agencies, radio, television, and Twitter. I received the...

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History 97: History Sophomore Tutorial

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2011

As a tutor for this course, I taught two weekly two-hour sections on historical writing. I graded student papers and led peer-review discussions of student work. For my work, I received the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching.

History 1968: United Nations: A Global History (Professors Emma Rothschild and Sugata Bose)

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2011

As teaching fellow for this conference course in the History Department, I helped to design the syllabus and graded students' work, including creative and collaborative assignments. I received the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching for my work in this course. This course formed the starting point for a website on the history of the United Nations, due to be launched in February 2012. The website project is sponsored by the United Nations Foundation in co-operation with the Center for History and Economics at Harvard. As project manager...

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