I am currently an Assistant Professor of History at Waldorf University. I previously worked as an adjunct professor of History at Mid Michigan Community College and Central Michigan University. I completed my PhD in medieval history at Central Michigan University. I received my Bachelor's degree in Physics and Astronomy from Northern Arizona University and have Master's degrees in History from CMU and the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. I have won various awards for papers I have written and continue to present my research at academic conferences.

I grew up in California (in the San Francisco Bay Area) and went to college in Flagstaff, Arizona. Since I graduated in 2004 I have lived in Colorado, Arizona, Missouri, Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa and Scotland. I spent 9 years in Michigan and recently moved to Iowa. I am married and have 2 young sons.

At Waldorf I teach World and European history from the Ancient world to today. My specific field of study is Medieval Europe and the History of Science. As a graduate student at CMU I have taught several history courses as a teaching assistant including: Western Civilization I, Medieval History, American History, and History of the Middle East. In the Spring of 2013 I taught my own class on Western Civilization. I have attended numerous teaching seminars through the CMU Faculty Center for Innovative Teaching where I learned a number of teaching techniques that I have applied to the classes I taught. I also worked at an elementary school summer program when I was an undergraduate and worked for a small business that taught technology related after-school programs for elementary and middle school children after I graduated from NAU. While at NAU I designed an educational outreach program as vice-president of the Society of Physics Students by which we would go to local schools and teach one-hour hands-on science lessons for kids. I love teaching and and along with tutoring I have also volunteered as a student mentor through the Kids Hope USA program.

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