Teaching
Current courses
HIS 208Y – History of the Jewish People – This survey course examines the history of the Jews from Biblical times to the present. As a teaching assistant, I am responsible for leading five tutorial groups of fifteen students each, in which we examine primary sources and discuss them. I am also responsible for instructing students in how to write their assignments and in marking all written work.
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, assigned readings and requirements are much different.
Courses I taught
HIS 389H – The Margins of Medieval Society - This is a course I’ve designed and proposed to the history department at U of T and which they accepted. 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 and 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.
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Courses I would like to teach
Survey
Focused/thematic lecture courses
Seminars
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 nature 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.
