Medieval & Renaissance Studies
and Urban History
New College of Florida
Program Design
I have extensive experience in program and curriculum design, from individual advising and tutorials to campus-wide general education curricula involving design, implementation, technical logistics, staff training, microcredentialing, and assessment tracking.
History
I have led two revisions of the New College History program, updating requirements and improving materials; this included participation in the AHA’s History Tuning Project (2011–14). I also designed and implemented NCF's course in Historical Methods, the teaching of which is rotated among me and my colleagues.
Some of the materials I generated in the course of these revisions include: (1) the Program Overview surveying courses, context, and careers; (2) an AOC Worksheet that helps students track their progress through the program; and (3) the History AOC Style Guide.
Medieval &
Renaissance Studies
I have been Director of New College's interdisciplinary program in Medieval & Renaissance Studies since 2008. This has involved leading several revisions of the program as well as organizing a regular series of auxiliary programs from club events, trips, and exhibits to the New College Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Studies. We are particularly proud of how we've integrated our undergraduates into the professional academic milieu of the Conference so they can experience how academic research is done outside of the books they read in class.
General Education &
the Liberal Arts
I recently led a 5-year redesign of New College's liberal arts (general education) curriculum, as Director of Chart Your Course, 2020–23. We envisioned CYC as a holistic program emphasizing integrative learning, transferable skills, and student reflection. As Director I established a culture of skill-building on campus through marketing, advising, and collaboration with units across the College; worked with state officials to ensure compliance with state standards, including alignemnt with a new digital badge/microcredentialing program; trained approximately 90% of regular College faculty over 2 years on CYC’s mission, goals, implementation, and assessment processes, including tracking faculty completion and compensation; and analyzed aggregate assessment data for CYC courses, presenting results to a range of groups (trustees, faculty, administrators).