Teaching Philosophy
My teaching centres on the belief that history is most compelling when students are active and enabled participants in creating knowledge that is relevant to their lives.
By fostering critical engagement, promoting inclusivity, and embracing interdisciplinary approaches, I aim to create a classroom environment that equips students with both historical insight and the analytical skills necessary to address contemporary challenges.
Departmental Lecturer, University of Oxford
I am currently privileged to be teaching twentieth-century U.S. history at St. Anne's College, Oxford. I teach across undergraduate and graduate levels, combining one-to-one tutorials with small-group seminars and large-scale lectures. My teaching covers the breadth of U.S. history from the Civil War to the present, with particular emphasis on race, America and the world, and the history of ideas and education.
Tutorials (One-on-One Teaching)
One-to-one teaching is critical to my teaching practice. I view tutorials as forums for intellectual experimentation, encouraging students to explore ideas with rigour and creativity and individually catering sessions to each learner to develop both their core historical skills and capacity for critical thought.
At Oxford, I primarily support students in "The Making of Modern since 1863."
Dissertation Supervision
My approach balances guidance on structure and methodology and encouraging original thinking, aiming to support students in producing work that is both ambitious and carefully grounded in evidence.
At Oxford, I have supported students writing on topics from the politics of the KKK to Asian-American activism and the rise of the neoliberal era.
Lectures
My lectures seek to balance broad narratives with constant engagement with historiographical debates. At Oxford, I have lectured on topics including:
Mass Incarceration and the New Racial Capitalism
U.S. Soft Power during the Cold War
The Culture Wars of the 1960s and 1970s
My seminars view the classroom as a space where history comes alive, and is actively made. I have delivered and designed seminars including:
Approaches to the History of Gender and Sexuality
America's Hidden Empire: Soft Power during the Cold War (2nd Year Undergrad)
Built to Exclude? Race, Resistance, and the American University 1636 - Present (MSt Course)
Seminars and Small-Group Teaching
Sample Courses
Additional Teaching Experience
PGTA, UCL's Institute of the Americas 2022-24
Contributed guest lectures, organised and ran over 50 seminar discussions classes, and marked over 100 scripts across the following modules:
Undergraduate Seminars
AMER0050: The Making of Modern America, 1920 - Present
Postgraduate Seminars
AMER0057: Research Methods
AMER0082: The Making of the Modern U.S. Presidency
AMER0092: The U.S. at War: Decolonial Perspectives, 1898 - Present
Pedagogical Practice and Innovation
I am actively involved in conversations around pedagogical innovation and inclusion, and am a member of the American Studies Teaching Network.
In May 2025, I arranged the inaugural History Lab Teaching Conference "Teaching in A Time of Crisis", a unique collaboration between History Lab, History Lab +, and History UK.
From 2024-2025, I was a Project Assistant at the Centre for Humanities Education, a laboratory for developing, innovating, researching, and sharing practices and approaches to education across the multi-disciplinary Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
School Talks
I am always thrilled to discuss history and American politics with schools, and have provided talks to a range of schools in the London area.
Experienced public speaker and presenter, having provided over 50 talks to audiences of up to 500 people across the US, UK, and Europe.
Academic Talks
2026 University of Oxford, Alain Locke African American History Seminar, “A Happy, Angry Man: John Hope Franklin, an Intellectual Biography.”
---- University of Oxford, American History Seminar, “A Happy, Angry Man: John Hope Franklin, an Intellectual Biography”
---- Swedish Institute for North American Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden. “A Happy, Angry Man: John Hope Franklin, an Intellectual Biography”
---- British Association for American Studies Conference, “Racial Liberalism: Concepts and Critiques” and “That Noble Dream? Race, Expertise, and the Objectivity Question in the Twentieth-Century Historical Profession,” University of Glasgow
---- Historians of the Twentieth-Century United States, "No University is an Island": The University of Chicago and Student Protest during the Long 1960s," University of Manchester
2025 “A Troubled Centennial? The Black Press, Counter-Memory, and the 1963 Emancipation Centennial", University of Edinburgh American History Seminar.
---- “Reasserting America? Transnational, Transcultural, and Multidirectional Memory during the Crises of the ‘American Century", Memory Studies Association 2025 Annual Conference, Prague, Czechia.
---- “HBCUs and the Pursuit of Educational Citizenship in Early Twentieth-Century Black Education," History of Education Society Seminar.
---- “'Walking the Tightrope’: John Hope Franklin and the Dilemmas of African American History in Public", North American History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London.
2024 “The Realism of Inequality and the Idealism of True Democracy”: John Hope Franklin, HBCUs, and the Pursuit of Educational Citizenship in Early-Twentieth-Century Black Educational Life”, Historians of the Twentieth-Century United States 2024 Annual Conference, University of Southampton.
---- “Bringing Memory Back In: The 1976 Bicentennial and Popular Rhetorics of American Neoliberalisation”, PGR/ECR Workshop at the Historians of the Twentieth-Century United States 2024 Annual Conference, University of Southampton.
2023 “'More Pride than Justice’: Student Protest, Black Power, and Black History c.1960-1975”, Roosevelt Institute for American Studies Fall 2023 PhD Symposium, Middelburg, The Netherlands.
---- “John Hope Franklin’s Strange Career in Southern History”, Southern Historical Association 2023 Annual Conference, Charleston, North Carolina.
---- “John Hope Franklin and the United Kingdom”, From Slavery to Freedom 75th Anniversary Symposium, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
---- “'My Foster Home’: Washington D.C. and the Library of Congress during the Writing of John Hope Franklin’s From Slavery to Freedom”, Kluge W. Center Work-in-Progress Talk, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
---- “‘Not as a Negro, Not Even as a Southerner, But as a Historian’ : John Hope Franklin, Public Histories, and the Dilemmas of Black Southern Identity”, British Association of American Studies 2023 Annual Conference, Keele University.
---- “John Hope Franklin, Activist Histories, and the Southern History during the Second Reconstruction”, Boston University, Stanford University, the University of California, Emory University and UCL Joint American History Collaboration, Stanford University, California.
---- “The Dilemma of the Exceptional: John Hope Franklin, Educational Integration, and Black History’s Popularisation Dilemmas in 1963”, Historians of the Twentieth Century United States 2023 Winter Symposium, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.
2022 “’This Textbook Fad’: Black Power, the Paperback Revolution, and the 1960s Reinvention of John Hope Franklin’s From Slavery to Freedom”, CHAPTER Conference: Books in the Closet, University College London.
---- “From Salzburg to Senegal: John Hope Franklin and the Liberal Internationalist Vision of Post-War Black History”, European University Institute Graduate History Conference: The Uses of History, Florence, Italy.
---- “A ‘Politics of Oblivion?’ Remembering (and Forgetting) the Vietnam War during 1976’s American Revolutionary Bicentennial”, Rethinking War Conference, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
---- “‘The Crossroads of Survival or Destruction’: Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon and the Rhetoric of the Nuclear Apocalypse in Senatorial Dissent on Foreign Policy”, Historians of the Twentieth-Century United States Winter Symposium, Liverpool John Moores University.
---- “‘The Conscience of the Nation’: John Hope Franklin, Race, Memory, and the Role of the Historian in a Post-Crisis World”, Emerging Scholar Series, University of Jamestown, North Dakota.
Speaker
Talks and Presentation
50+
Organiser of eight conferences.
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