teaching

Undergraduate lectures

  • History in the Headlines

    Each week another member of the department situates some current event in its historical context. syllabus

  • Modern Europe

    Introducing students from any year, school, or major to the contest between conservatism, liberalism, socialism, and nationalism since the Enlightenment. syllabus

  • Multinational Britain

    Social difference in the British Isles during the 10,000 years before Brexit. syllabus

  • Early Modern Britain

    How did a provincial Catholic monarchy become imperial, Protestant, and parliamentary? syllabus

  • Britain & the British Empire

    British history between joining Europe in 1688 and leaving Europe in 2020. syllabus

Graduate seminars

  • Europe: Now and Then

    A team-taught introduction to European historiography, pairing thematically related early modern and modern works alongside one another. syllabus

  • Twentieth-Century Britain

    With special attention to some of the metanarratives that attempt to account for the period as a whole. syllabus

  • Approaches to History

    A triple orientation for new graduate students, introducing the department, the profession, and the discipline. syllabus

  • "Class" and the Historian

    Reading histories of social class since the 1960s, in order to shed light on broader developments in the humanities. syllabus

  • Britain 1680-1880

    One of my various courses on British historiography, each of which aims to help students arrive somewhere between field literacy and field mastery. syllabus

Undergraduate seminars

  • First-Year Seminar: Oceans

    An introduction to NYU and to New York City, through a series of interdisciplinary explorations of the ocean. syllabus

  • Urban Modernism

    Getting inside controversial urban development projects, concluding with a tour on “NYU Modernism.” syllabus

  • The Darwinian Revolution

    On the origins and reverberations of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859). Note: this syllabus links to an earlier version of this course.

  • Writing British History

    For majors who have completed the workshop. Several alumni have published their final papers, and one won a national essay prize. syllabus

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