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I have previously taught at Gettysburg College, Illinois State University, and as a graduate student at the University of Kansas.


Truman State University (1999-)

I currently teach Latin American History in the Division of Social Science at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. See Current Courses to see what I am teaching this semester. (Click on the "Preview" button on the next page to view these classes.)

Spring 2008

Fall 2007

2006-2007: On sabbatical.

Spring 2006

Fall 2005

Spring 2005

Fall 2004

Spring 2004

Fall 2003

2002-2003: I was on leave with a Fulbright fellowship in Ecuador.

Spring 2002

Fall 2001

May 2001 Interim

Spring 2001

Fall 2000

May 2000 Interim

Spring 2000

Fall 1999


Gettysburg College (1998-1999)

Because of my expertise in social movements, Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, hired me as a visiting scholar in Latin American Studies as part of their year-long area studies symposium on Social Movements in Latin America. I taught the following courses:

Spring 1999

Fall 1998

Illinois State University (1997-1998)

I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois on a visiting one-year appointment. I taught the following courses:


University of Kansas

During the 1996-1997 academic year I was an Instructor with Latin American Studies at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas in an innovative program called KULAC (KU Languages Across the Curriculum) in which all instruction is conducted in Spanish. I taught the following courses:


From 1992 to 1996, I had a series of fellowships.

From 1990-1992, I was an Assistant Instructor in the Department of History at the University of Kansas. I had complete responsibility for the instruction of a section of sixty students in Colonial Latin American History, including syllabus preparation, lecturing, and grading.

Previous to that (1987-1990), I was a Teaching Assistant in the Department of History at the University of Kansas assisting professors in the instruction of history classes. My duties included responsibility for primary contact with seventy to one-hundred students per semester, grading assignments, leading discussion sections, and presenting occasional lectures. I was a Teaching Assistant in the following classes:

  • Modern Latin America
  • Colonial Latin America
  • United States Through the Civil War
  • United States Since the Civil War

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