Fall 2013 - Present
Writing Instructor and Academic-Corporate Consultant
William Chiriguayo
Freelance educator and advisor to students (and, when applicable, parents) seeking to improve general writing and communication skills, optimize academic steps and/or plan for elite-college admission, and prepare for all steps of the admissions process--from exams to interviews; Provide intensive writing and communication instruction in individual, custom, student-specific study session(s) for both academic and corporate clients.
Fall 2015 - Spring 2017
Concentration Advisor and Tutor (Non-Residential)
Mather House
Advise History Concentrators on wide array of academic matters to facilitate and/or enhance their experience and successful completion of a degree in history; Support and advise on senior-thesis subject matter, course selection, and administrative matters; Establish and maintain a presence and representation of the history department in the Mather House community.
Spring 2016
Instructor
History 60s: Imperial History of the U.S. Dollar
William Chiriguayo
Introduction to the history of the American dollar, from colonial origins to its ascent to international currency of choice. Focus on the production of United States coinage and paper money, and its relationship to expansion, sovereignty, and national institutions.
Spring 2015
Seminar Tutor
History 60o: American Indian History in Four Acts
Phil Deloria
Both scholars and tribal people (not mutually exclusive!) have found it useful to structure American Indian history around four broad chronological categories emerging from the formation of United States Indian policy: Treatymaking, Indian Removal, Land Allotment, and Self-Determination. This seminar will use this "four acts" structure to offer a broad overview of American Indian history, while also considering the limitations of such category-making, including the decentering of Indian people and the blunting of historical complexity. Engaged with primary sources and historiography, the course will also allow students to engage in original research in the field of American Indian history.
Fall 2014
Teaching Fellow
History 1011: The World of the Roman Empire
Emma Dench
An introduction to Roman history from the mid third century BCE to the mid third century CE, with emphasis on the multiple cultures of the Roman empire and their diverse involvement in, and perspectives on, Roman conquest and rule. Challenging traditional narratives of Roman political history, we will seek a much more dynamic view of 'Roman' culture and society, based on both literary and archaeological evidence.
Spring 2014
Teaching Fellow
History 1511: Latin America and the United States
Kristen Weld
Surveys the complex, mutually constitutive, and often thorny relationship - characterized by suspicion and antagonism, but also by fascination and desire - between the United States and the diverse republics south of the Rio Grande. Examines public policy, US expansionism and empire, popular culture and consumption, competing economic development models, migration, tourism, the Cold War, sovereignty, dissent, and contrasting visions of democratic citizenship.
Fall 2013
Teaching Fellow
History 1520: Colonial Latin America
Tamar Herzog
This course is an introductory survey of colonial Latin American history, spanning the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Organized chronologically and thematically, it will examine developments in Spanish and Portuguese America by reading both secondary and primary sources (available in English translation).
