Teaching

In 2025, I designed and taught a lecture course titled “The History of Human Rights in American Journalism,” posing the question of how conceptions of reporting and rights-claiming evolved together in different periods of American history. Texts for the course ranged from Bartolomé de las Casas, Henry David Thoreau, and The Liberator through Ida B. Wells, George Washington Williams, and Joan Didion. A key component was the legal history of free speech in the United States.

The course was featured, along with the other prize lectureships, on the Pozen Center’s website.

As a teaching assistant, I have taught courses on American history (with Amy Dru Stanley) and in UChicago’s core curriculum. I can teach broadly on topics in 19th- and 20th-century American literature and history. I am currently developing a syllabus for a course on the 1970s in American history, literature, society, and law.

Photo: Tour of the Art Institute of Chicago, July 2024.