What is the best part about teaching in this graduate program?
The students are impressive and engaged. The hybrid seminars work great and the online students are terrific. A chance to teach history at the professional level with student/colleagues: A wonderful kind of teaching that lets faculty present the cutting-edge new knowledge their research generates.
What is the one thing you hope students take away from your course(s)?
Research and communication skills.
What are the real-world applications of the work you do at the University?
Endless. History teaches non-fiction research and communication of findings at the highest verbal, written, and digital level. This is basically the heart of most business jobs as well as law and government.
What kinds of coursework and capstone projects should students expect?
A range of capstones that tie together their graduate work and create new knowledge through research: digital, physical, experiential, traditional prose, and course based capstones are all available.
What advice would you give to a student who wants to be successful?
Approach graduate work as a profession.
What is the focus of your scholarly pursuits?
Researching the origins and interrelations of warfare and American ideology.
What is the most interesting thing, to you, about the research area you’re pursuing?
Its practical applications to improving America’s future.