Teaching and Advising

Undergraduate Teaching (Graduate Teaching and Advising below).

I teach a range of courses that focus on European History, German History, the History of Medicine, and the History of War and Society.

Courses Taught

  • HIST 1121: Europe since 1660
  • HIST 2001: Germany after Hitler
  • HIST 2140: Disease and Medicine History
  • HIST 2281: Modern Germany: From Unification to Re-Unification
  • HIST 2600: History Skills Seminar — The War to End All Wars
  • HIST 2600: Carolina in the Trenches: Charlotte and the Region in the WWI Era
  • HIST 3001: Flesh & Blood: Sex, Gender, and the Body in European History
  • HIST 3116: 20th Century Europe 1914-Present
  • HIST 3141: The First World War
  • HIST 3093: The Spanish Flu
  • HIST 4001: The First World War: Causes and Controversies (Historiography Course)
  • HIST 4003: Bullets and Bandages: Historiography of War and Medicine
  • HIST 4600: Blood and Guts: Trauma and Medicine on the Modern Battlefield
  • LBST 2102: Great War, Global War (fulfills “global connections” requirement)
  • LBST 2301: Carolina in the Trenches (fulfills “critical thinking and communication” reuirement)

Graduate Teaching

I regularly teach courses on European history in our graduate program.  I also advise graduate students working in one (or more) of the following fields: German History; World War I; Modern European History; History of Medicine and Health; History of the Body; Disability Studies; War and Society Studies.

Courses Taught

  • HIST 5001:  Problems in German History
  • HIST 5001:  Causes and Controversies: Historians, Historiography, and the First World War
  • HIST 5003:  Bullets and Bandages: Historiography of War and Medicine
  • HIST 6102:  Colloquium in 20th Century Europe
  • HIST 6693:  Historiography and Methodology

Graduate Student Advising

M.A. Students — Current

  • Lucias Cordial
  • William Ginsberg
  • Parker Hively

M.A. Students — Successfully defended

  • Daniel Underwood, “Come Hell or High Water: Tropical Doctors, Sleeping Sickness, and German Colonialism in Togo, Cameroon, and East Africa, 1901-1914” (2024)
  • Hannah Glynn, “‘In His Country’s Service’: Irish Catholic Support for the First World War” (2023)
  • Carter Wyatt, “Sisterhood: The Role of Female Friendship among Allied Nurses in the Second World War” (2022)
  • Keira Roberson, “Underground Circles and Clandestine Romance: Queer Resistance under the Third Reich” (2021)
  • Rachel Gaskin, “Dr. Madge Baker Gaskin: The Making of a Female Physician in the 1920’s” (2020)
  • Taylor Marks, “The Jewish Problem: An Analysis of Anti-Semitic Admissions Quotas in U.S. Medical Schools from 1920 to 1960” (2020)
  • Laura Burgess,  “‘A Mother-Specific Disorder for a Mother-Specific Crime’: Alienists, Infanticide and Puerperal Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain” (2020).
  • Hallie Gillespie, “Swimming for the Fatherland: Journalism, Pronatalism, and Modernization in the World of Weimar Sport” (2017)
  • Marissa Nichols, “The Greatest Enemy? Smallpox Elimination and Politics in Mexico, 1942-1970” (2016)
  • Kyle McLain, “The Survivor’s Hunt for Nazi Fugitives in Brazil,” (2016)
  • Christopher Kinley, “Reclaiming the Unredeemed: Irredentism and the National Schism in Greece’s First World War,” (2016)
  • Eugene Stouse, “Bohemian Nationalism and the Impact of Czech and Slovak Nationals Abroad on the Emergence of Czechoslovakia” (2015)
  • Jessica Kapota, M.A. Exams
  • Kelly Summerrow, “Charles Kettering and the Intersection of Technology and Human Intellect, 1910-1958,” (2013)
  • Joshua Weese, “The Impact of Zionism on the Issuance of the Balfour Declaration,” (2013)
  • Emma Castle-Grandstaff, “Black Soldiers and the American Occupation of Germany,1945-1960,” (2010)