I currently teach Latin American History in the Department of History at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. I previously taught at Gettysburg College, Illinois State University, and as a graduate student at the University of Kansas. See syllabi to browse this list organized thematically.

Fall 2025

• FYS: Class, Poverty & Power (TRU 120)
• Class, Poverty & Power (SOAN 250/452)
• Senior Seminar in History (HIST 4999)

Spring 2025

• Women in Latin American History (HIST 303/3815)
• Senior Seminar in History (HIST 4999)
• Class in America (JINS 363)

Fall 2024

• FYS:Social Problems (TRU 120)
• Mexican History (HIST 303/3825)
• Latin American History: Research Seminar (HIST 4996)

Spring 2024

• Social Problems (SOAN 215)
• Latin American Revolutions (HIST 3850)
• Theories of History (HIST 4997/600G)

Fall 2023

• Institutional History of the United States (HIST 2100)
• Structured Inequalities (SOAN 265)
• Senior Seminar in History (HIST 4999)

2022-2023: Sabbatical research leave

Spring 2022

• Institutional History of the United States (HIST 2100)
• Latin American History at the Movies (HIST 3816)
• Latin America Revolutions: Research Seminar (HIST 4996)

Fall 2021

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 1801)
• Mexican History (HIST 3825)
• Race, Class, & Gender (JINS 311)

Spring 2021

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Latin American History (HIST 3810)
• Twentieth-Century Latin America (HIST 618G)

Fall 2020

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Women in Latin American History (HIST 369)
• Race and Ethnicity in Latin America (JINS 338)
• Senior Seminar in History (HIST 498)

Spring 2020

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Latin America Revolutions: The CIA Files (HIST 391)

Fall 2019

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Latin American History at the Movies (HIST 368)
• Andean History (HIST 390)
• Senior Seminar in History (HIST 498)

Spring 2019

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Women in Latin American History (HIST 369)
• Senior Seminar in History (HIST 498)

Fall 2018

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Latin American History (HIST 365)
• Mexican History (HIST 392)

Spring 2018

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Latin America Revolutions (HIST 391)
• Race and Ethnicity in Latin America (JINS 338)
• Global Issues Colloquium (IDSM 400)

Fall 2017

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Andean History (HIST 390)
• Global Issues Colloquium (IDSM 400)

Spring 2017

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Women in Latin American History (HIST 369)
• Race and Ethnicity in Latin America (JINS 338)
• Global Issues Colloquium (IDSM 400)

Fall 2016

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Latin America Revolutions (HIST 391)
• Mexican History (HIST 392)
• Global Issues Colloquium (IDSM 400)

Spring 2016

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Indigenous Peoples in Latin America (HIST 365)
• Andean History (HIST 390)
• Race and Ethnicity in Latin America (JINS 338)

Fall 2015

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Latin America Revolutions (HIST 391)

2014-2015: On sabbatical.

Spring 2014

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Che at the Movies (HIST 365.01)
• Indigenous Peoples in Latin America (HIST 365.02)

Fall 2013 (University of Ghana)

• History of Latin America (HIST 409)
• Political and Social Movements and Global Discontent (HIST 720)

Spring 2013

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Latin American History at the Movies: Women in Film (HIST 368)
• Women in Latin American History: The “Great Women” Approach (HIST 369)

Fall 2012

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Andean History: Ecuador (HIST 390)
• Mexican History (HIST 392)

Spring 2012

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Latin American History at the Movies (HIST 368)
• Latin America Revolutions (HIST 391)

Fall 2011

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Race and Ethnicity in Latin America (JINS 338)

Spring 2011

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Women in Latin American History (HIST 369)
• Senior Seminar in History (HIST 400)

Fall 2010

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Che at the Movies (HIST 365)
• Andean History (HIST 390)

Spring 2010 (Latin American Experience: History and Conservation Biology of Panama)

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Race and Ethnicity in Latin America (JINS 338)
• Latin American Experience (ENVS 380)

Fall 2009 (University of Ghana)

• History of Latin America (HIST 409)

Spring 2009

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Latin American Revolutions (HIST 391)
• Latin American History at the Movies (HIST 368)

Fall 2008

• Introduction to Latin American History (HIST 140)
• Mexican History (HIST 392)
• Senior Seminar in History (HIST 400.01)

Spring 2008

• Introduction to Latin American History (HIST 140)
• Women in Latin American History (HIST 365.02)
• Latin American History at the Movies (HIST 365.01)

Fall 2007

• Introduction to Latin American History (HIST 140)
• Andean History (HIST 390)
• Race and Ethnicity in Latin America (JINS 338)

2006-2007: On sabbatical.

Spring 2006

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Latin American Revolutions (HIST 391)
• Latin American History at the Movies (HIST 365)

Fall 2005

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Mexican History (HIST 392)
• Senior Seminar (HIST 400)

Spring 2005

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Latin America Revolutions (HIST 391)
• Race, Class and Gender in Latin America (JINS 338)

Fall 2004

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Andean History (HIST 390)
• Senior Seminar in History (HIST 400)

Spring 2004

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Mexican History (HIST 328)

Fall 2003

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Introduction to History and Historiography (HIST 231.02)
• Latin America Revolutions (HIST 328)

2002-2003: I was on leave with a Fulbright fellowship in Ecuador.

Spring 2002

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Latin American History at the Movies (HIST328)

Fall 2001

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• History and Historiography (HIST 231 section 3 and FW)
• Andean History (HIST328.03)

May 2001 Interim

• Latin American History at the Movies (HIST 499)

Spring 2001

• Latin America During the National Period (HIST 140)
• Race and Ethnicity in Latin America (JINS 338)
• Latin American Peasantry (HIST 536)

Fall 2000

• Introduction to Latin American History (HIST 140)
• History and Historiography (HIST 231.01)
• Ethnic Identities in Latin America (HIST 328.04)

May 2000 Interim

• Latin American History at the Movies (HIST 499.02)

Spring 2000

• Introduction to Latin American History (HIST140, sec 1 & 2)
• Andean History (HIST328.07)

Fall 1999

• Latin America during the National Period (HIST140.01)
• Revolutions in 20th-Century Latin America (HIST328.04)
• Mexican History (HIST328.05)

Gettysburg College (1998-1999)

Because of my expertise in social movements, Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, hired me as a visiting scholar in Latin American Studies as part of their year-long area studies symposium on Social Movements in Latin America. I taught the following courses:

Spring 1999

• Social Movements in Latin America (LAS 274)
• Native Peoples: Indigenous Movements in Latin America (LAS 275)
• Area Studies Seminar: Latin America (IDS 253)

• Revolutions in Latin America (LAS 273)
• Indigenous Movements in Latin America (LAS 275)
• Area Studies Seminar: Latin America (IDS 252)

Illinois State University (1997-1998)

I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois on a visiting one-year appointment. I taught the following courses:

• Latin American History (Fall 1997; Spring 1998; Summer 1998)
• History of the United States since 1865 (Fall 1997)
• History of Mexico (Fall 1997; Spring 1998)

University of Kansas

During the 1996-1997 academic year I was an Instructor with Latin American Studies at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas in an innovative program called KULAC (KU Languages Across the Curriculum) in which all instruction is conducted in Spanish. I taught the following courses:

• Modern Latin American History (Fall 1996)
• Indigenous Groups and Ethnicity in Latin America (Spring 1997)

From 1992 to 1996, I had a series of fellowships.

From 1990-1992, I was an Assistant Instructor in the Department of History at the University of Kansas. I had complete responsibility for the instruction of a section of sixty students in Colonial Latin American History, including syllabus preparation, lecturing, and grading.

Previous to that (1987-1990), I was a Teaching Assistant in the Department of History at the University of Kansas assisting professors in the instruction of history classes. My duties included responsibility for primary contact with seventy to one-hundred students per semester, grading assignments, leading discussion sections, and presenting occasional lectures. I was a Teaching Assistant in the following classes:

• Modern Latin America
• Colonial Latin America
• United States Through the Civil War
• United States Since the Civil War

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