Teaching history
Spring 2026:
HIS 110: World History (Global Rock 'n' Roll)
HIS 200: Historiography and History Methods
HIS 351: France and the French Empire
Fall 2025:
HIS 110: World History (Global Rock 'n' Roll)
HIS 490: Senior Capstone in History
Spring 2024:
HIS 397: African Nationalism
HIS 402: Secondary Content Methods for Teaching English Language Learners
Fall 2023:
HIS 403: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment in Social Studies Education
HIS 359: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Europe
Spring 2023:
HIS 352: Germany, 1848-Present
HIS 402: Secondary Content Methods for Teaching English Language Learners
Fall 2022:
HIS 403: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment in Social Studies Education
HIS 407: State and Society--Northern Ireland from the Troubles to Brexit
Spring 2022:
HIS 402: Secondary Content Methods for Teaching English Language Learners
Fall 2021:
HIS 420: Global Fascisms
HIS 403: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment in Social Studies Education
Spring 2021:
HIS 110: Global Sport in the Long 20th Century.
Fall 2020:
HIS 110: Global Sport in the Long 20th Century.
HIS 351: France and the French Empire
Spring 2020
HIS 110: Global Sport in the Long 20th Century.
HIS 414: Ireland and the World 1500-Present
Spring 2019:
HIS 398: Colonial Africa
HIS 408: Teaching and Learning in the Secondary Social Studies Classroom
EDS 492: Student Teaching Seminar
Fall 2018:
HIS 408: Teaching and Learning in the Secondary Social Studies Classroom
HIS 407: European Fascisms
EDS 492: Student Teaching Seminar
Spring 2018:
HIS 408: Teaching and Learning in the Secondary Social Studies Classroom
HIS 300: Decolonization and Postcolonialism in Africa
EDS 492: Student Teaching Seminar
Fall 2017:
HIS 408: Teaching and Learning in the Secondary Social Studies Classroom
HIS 414: A Global History of Ireland
EDS 492: Student Teaching Seminar
Professional history
2025-: Modern (20th-21st Centuries) Book Review Editor, Journal of British Studies
2023-: Treasurer, American Conference for Irish Studies
2021-2024: Chair, Department of History
2013-Present: Assistant/Associate Professor/Professor, World History, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
2010-2013: Assistant Professor, History and Broadfield Social Studies Education, University of Wisconsin-Superior, Superior, WI.
2009: Research Fellow, Institute for Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
2008-2009: Teaching Fellow, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
2005-2008: Teaching Assistant, Teaching Fellow, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI.
1997-2005, 2006: Social Science Teacher/Department Chair, Arroyo High School, El Monte, CA.
Research and publishing
The future of a different past—popular culture and the liberalisation of Ireland, 1977-1991. In process.
The Shadow Metropole—the varieties of anticolonialism in Ireland, 1936-1979. In process.
'A New Form of Beauty: Irish postpunk and the liberalization of Ireland, 1977-1991.' New Hibernia Review 26, no. 1 (Spring/Earrach 2022).
'Help, given in a disinterested manner--Emerging Nationhood and Extraversion in Ireland, 1950-1979'. Radical History Review 143 (May 2022).
Ireland’s New Traditionalists—Fianna Fáil republicanism and gender, 1926-1938. Cork, Éire: Cork University Press, 2021.
'The Shadow Metropole: Global anti-colonialism and the legacy of Ireland’s Revolution', History Ireland, 2019.
History and Theory Through Popular Music—Those are the New Saints. London: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2017. Co-authored with Daniel R. McClure.
"The Shadow Metropole: The Varieties of Anticolonial Rhetoric in Twentieth Century Ireland, in eds. Timothy McMahon, Paul Townend, Michael de Nie, Ireland in an Imperial World: Citizenship, Opportunism, and Subversion (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series). London: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2017.
“Fashion’s Latest Whims Need Not Alarm Us: Fianna Fáil, Femininity and the Conspicuous Consumption of Republican Nationalism, 1931-1937.” The New Hibernia Review (Fall 2015).
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