My teaching

On one wall of Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos Puerto Rican High School in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, where I gained my first experience as a classroom teacher years ago, and where I now volunteer on the Board of Directors, a student-painted mural illustrated the school’s motto: “La educación rompe las cadenas,” “education breaks chains.” My philosophy of education has always been indebted to my time at Albizu Campos, and that motto has remained a touchstone. I love teaching because it creates an opening for new possibilities. Students in my classes take center stage as active leaders in a learning process that aims to enhance the critical thinking skills necessary for long-term transformative engagement with the multiple communities these students inhabit.

Courses I teach at Manchester

Spring 2021

History 114: United States History since 1865

History 236: Epidemic Disease in US History

Fall 2020

History 113: North American History to 1865

History 237: Race and Ethnicity in US History

History 460: Recent United States History

Spring 2020

History 114: United States History since 1865

History 254: Latin American History

History 256: African American History