
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Courses Taught
The West in the Modern World
History of Modern Latin America
History of Modern Brazil
History of Afro-Latin America
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
Atlantic Slave Trade Narratives
The Panama Canal: Perspectives on Labor, Politics, and the Environment
African American Mobility and Travel Abroad: From Paul Cuffee to Ta-Nehisi Coates
State Terror and the Politics of Memory in Dirty War Latin America
Historian’s Craft: Panama and the Canal
Collaborative Research with Undergraduates
2015. 2/C Midshipman Brissa Medina and 1/C Adriana Ayala researched and collaboratively wrote “Freedom of the Seas: A Dispute between Great Britain and Nicaragua, 1904-1905.”
Supervised Undergraduate Papers
Honors Theses
2019. 1/C MIDN Maddie Angeli, “‘Just What the Doctor Ordered’: Milton Eisenhower Reclaimed Inter-American Affairs on his 1953 Goodwill Tour” (Honors)
2018. 1/C MIDN Cullen Harper, “Colombian Anti-Narcotic Regulation, 1934-1940.” (Departmental Honors)
2014. 1/C MIDN Michael Franco’s Honor Thesis “Cultural Diplomacy in Latin America during the Cold War: The Impact of Jazz Diplomacy in Latin America, 1954-1963,” McMurtry Honors Prize.


Non-Honors Theses
2022. 3/C MIDN Jason Kaiser HH 216 Paper “Africa Was No Exception,” Jones-Huffman Prize Winner.
2021. 3/C MIDN Drew Williams HH 200 prospectus “Reimagining the Turnover of the Panama Canal,” Merrill Lewis Bartlett Award for Excellence in History.
2015. 1/C MIDN Shaquil Keels HH 486B paper, “The Slave Trade and the Importance of Slave Ship Captains.”
2015. 3/C MIDN Reilly Klein’s HH262 paper “Abolition or the Total Quest of the Slave Trade: Dahomey under King Agaja,” Merrill Lewis Bartlett Award for Excellence History.