You can find my teaching dossier here.
Current courses
IFP100Y – Ten Days that Shook the World – I changed my world history course this year to focus on ten separate events whose case studies we combine to create a discontinuous history of the world from 1400 to 1994.
HIS 208Y – History of the Jewish People - This survey course examines the history of the Jews from Biblical times to the present. I teach the first half of the course, which examines Jewish life from c.300 to the 17th century.
HIS336H – Medieval Spain – In this course we will look at the history of the various kingdoms that formed today’s Spain from Roman times to the reign of Carlos V. Some key themes will be the interaction between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Iberian peninsula as well as the role of the Spanish kingdoms as the intersection between Christian Europe and Muslim world. I’m looking forward to including a digital history class project in this course.
Courses I taught
IFP100Y – Themes in World History - I’ve always wanted to teach a world history course, so when the opportunity came up to teach a survey course for first-year international students at the International Foundation Program (University of Toronto), I proposed a course centered on building historical skills through the comparative study of human history around the globe .
HIS 485H – The Margins of Medieval Society – The success of my summer course encouraged me to propose a seminar version of the lecture course to UTM (University of Toronto at Mississauga). Although the subject and thematic structure is the same as in the summer course, readings and assignments were much different. The class was very small but discussions were very fruitful and the students seemed genuinely interested on the material.
HIS 389H – The Margins of Medieval Society- This is a course I’ve designed and proposed to the history department at U of T. Over the course of six intensive weeks in the Summer of 2009 this course examined medieval attitudes towards social, economic, and religious outcasts. Some of the groups studied were: lepers, prostitutes, heretics, Jews, Muslims, criminals, and the poor.
HIS 243 – Early Modern Europe (1450-1648) – As a teaching assistant I was responsible for leading tutorials and marking essays and exams for five groups of fifteen students. Fall of 2007 and Fall 2008.
Courses I would like to teach
In addition to the courses listed above, I would like to someday teach the following:
Survey
- Medieval Europe
- Early Modern Europe
- Europe and the World
- Colonial Latin America, 1250-1650
Focused/thematic lecture courses
- Christians, Jews and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia (500-1600)
- The Reformation and Counter-Reformation
- Inquisition and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
- The Mediterranean (500-1700)
- The Holocaust: History and Memory
- Law & Society in the Middle Ages
- A History of Food or Food in World History
Seminars
- Historiography and historical method
- Christians and Jews in Medieval Europe
- Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Medieval Iberia
- Teaching History: a Pedagogical Seminar
I’m also getting increasingly interested in the emerging field of Digital History or the Digital Humanities. Technology has always been an integral part of my life so it’s only natural that it should be part of my research and teaching. I hope to design and incorporate more digital history elements to all of my classes.
