One of my favourite aspects of my job is that I teach mostly to non-historians. The International Foundation Program is aimed at international students who performed just below the minimum IELTS/TOEFL score required for direct admission into U of T. Instead of being denied admission, these students get a chance to take a transitional year [...]

I wish I could say I did it on purpose, but I can’t get over how fitting it is that yesterday, March 7th, was the first of two lectures in my world history course on the protests in Iran after the announcement that all women had to wear the hijab (March 8, 1979). In tutorial [...]

Last Wednesday was the final lecture for IFP100Y, the world history class I teach at a program for first year international students at U of T. It happens every year. Over the 24 weeks of the year-long course I get to know many of the students, I see them every week, and then the day [...]