History MA & Humanities Teacher

Ricardo C.

If you want to understand the present, more often than not it is a good idea to study the past and witness how today's circumstances came to be. It was this kind of thinking and curiosity about the present that initially brought me to the study of History and the Humanities, disciplines I have come to love and that has helped me understand the world we live in.

As a lifelong student of the past, I understand how it can be difficult at times, if not always, to appreciate the joy and fascination that History can bring to people. Regretfully History has a reputation to be a dry and boring subject, which it can be if it is only taught as a series of dates and names that succeed one after the other.

It is my hope that I can show students how learning about History can be fun and interesting, especially for those who do not consider History to be among their strongest subject.

I have ample experience studying history formally through higher education and informally through continuing self study. I am graduated with an MA from Georgetown University where I completed my studiesin history with a focus in Colonial Latin American history. Afterwards I have taught in a high school setting as a classroom teacher for the last five years. As such I am familiar with various strands of History and complementary disciplines such as Geography, Religious Studies Classics and Anthropology.