Opened Practices Users Working in: HISTORY

407 Major Williams Hall
Virginia Tech

I am a young professor in my fourth year of teaching full time. Like my students, I spend a great of deal of time online, and so I make all of my course content available on the Scholar website: all primary and secondary sources, all documentary video clips, and links to the lectures on youtube are all found there. This semester I am going to use the wiki tool to help the students work collaboratively on their term paper, which asks them to compare and contrast two biographies of Charlemagne written two generations apart.

11212 Readvill Lane

I have been teaching at history at the college level since 1992. I moved into teaching using technology in the late 1990s when I discovered high speed internet. Prior to utilizing course management software such as Blackboard and Sakai, I taught myself how to build webpages and posted information on open access websites. I am currently the lone representative in my department who offers online courses. Along with teaching the online surveys of US history to freshman, I teach a methods course for pre-service social studies teachers and I coordinate professional development workshops for public school teachers.

History Department
450 Serra Mall, Building 200
Stanford University

I received my PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2008, and am currently a Mellon Humanities Fellow in the History Department at Stanford University.

I received my PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2008, and am currently a Mellon Humanities Fellow in the History Department at Stanford University. My research on the Cold War examines the haphazard construction of the Iron Curtain in Germany by local, state, and international interests from 1945-1989, and ways in which the infamous East-West "wall in the head" was both a product and a producer of the wall on the ground. My doctoral dissertation, "Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain," reveals the startling extent to which borderland residents participated in their own partition, and offers an unconventional perspective on Germany's postwar journey from Nazism to democracy and to communism and its dissolution. During my time at Stanford, I look forward to completing my book manuscript and further exploring the intersection of global events and everyday life. I have woven this emphasis on individual experiences into innovative quarter-long identities projects for courses in the History Department, "Germany and the World Wars, 1870-1990," and "Self-policing, Denunciation, and Surveillance in Modern Europe."