Ph.D., History, Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
M.A., Cinema Studies, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts
B.A., Literature, University of Michigan—Ann Arbor, Residential College
Teaching
AMST 200 – Themes and Topics in American Culture
AMST 400 – Capstone Seminar in American Studies
FYS 130 – First Year Seminar
HIS 202 – Themes in American History
HIS 206 – The Americas before 1492
HIS 251 – Global History since 1500
HIS 255 – 20th Century Global History
HIS 307 – Colonial Latin American History
HIS 308 – Latin America in Revolution
HIS 324 – History of Philadelphia
HIS 371 – Life on the US / Mexico Border
Travel Study Course: El Paso, TX
HIS 375 – Art and History of Mexico
Travel Study Course: Mexico City
HIS 376 – Contemporary Cuba: Politics, History, and Everyday Life
Travel Study Course: Cuba
HIS 481 – Seminar
Publications
Co-editor with Jan-Christopher Horak and Colin Gunckel, Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles: Origins to 1960 (Rutgers University Press, 2019)
Oral history: “Revolution, Diaspora, and Return: The Journey of the De La 91ֱ Cuban Brothers”
(2017)
Writer, interviewer, translator
Website co-produced with Conrad Gleber
The Rise of Spanish-Language Filmmaking: Out from Hollywood’s Shadow, 1929-1939 (Rutgers University Press, 2012)
Co-editor with Richard Garlitz, Teaching America to the World and the World to America: Education and Foreign Relations since 1870 (Macmillan / Palgrave, 2012)