Teaching: Courses

Courses | Teaching Philosophy | Information for Students

Teaching at A&M

• Renaissance and Reformation Europe, 1300-1600 (Hist 332)
• Seminar in History: Intellectual History (Hist 481)
• European Intellectual History from Ancient Greece to the Early Middle Ages (Hist 418)
• European Intellectual History from the High Middle Ages to the 17th Century (Hist 419)

Taught as Teaching Fellow

• Renaissance Florence (with Professor James Hankins)
• Western Intellectual History: Greco-Roman Antiquity (with Professor James Hankins)
• Western Intellectual History: Middle Ages to 17th Century (with Professor James Hankins)
• European Intellectual History II: 19th-20th Centuries (with Professor Peter Gordon)
• A Global History of Modern Times, 18th-20th Centuries (with Professor Charles Maier)
• Sophomore Tutorial (with Professors Mark Kishlansky, Joyce Chaplin, and Lisa McGirr)
• Honors Research Seminar (with Professors James Hankins, Timothy George, Michael McCormick, and Nathaniel Taylor)

Sample Syllabi

• Renaissance Florence from Dante to Machiavelli
• History of the Soul and Premodern Theories of Psychology
• The European Enlightenment and the Encyclopedia Project: 18th Century European Intellectual History

Other Sample Courses

• Early Modern:
• 1450: the European World Before and After Printing
• New Philosophy & the Invention of Progress: 17th Century European Intellectual History
• Conservative & Radical Enlightenment: 18th Century European Intellectual History
• Moral Physics: Dante and the Late Medieval Christian World
• The Reception of Antiquity from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
• New Worlds and Old: The Cultural History of Europeans in the Americas
• Long-term:
• History of Atheism, Skepticism, and Freethought
• History of the Soul
• History of Republics and Republicanism, Ancient and Modern
• Book Production from Papyrus to the Printing Press
• Astrology, Theurgy and Magic in the Classical and Renaissance Worlds