Teaching, Mentoring, Advising, and Campus Service
Teaching Experience:
Undergraduate Surveys
- American History to 1877
- American History since 1877
- American Civilization
Upper-Division Undergraduate Courses
- U.S. West to 1900
- U.S. West to the Present
- Nebraska and the Great Plains
- Great Plains Indians
- Western American Studies
Undergraduate Seminars
- History and American Studies Senior Capstone Research/Writing Seminars
- Western American Studies Seminar
Graduate Seminars
- Native American History to the Present
- 20th Century Native America
- U.S. West to 1900
- 20th Century U.S. West
- American Historiography
- Native American Women’s History
- Native American History to 1900
- North American Borderlands
- Comparative Colonial / Indians and Empires
Mentoring and Advising:
- 2017-present
- Intermountain Histories Internship Coordinator
- Interns Supervised:
- Sydney Wilson (Fall 2022)
- Lindsey Meza (Winter 2022)
- Makoto Hunter (Winter 2021)
- Anna Bailey (Fall 2020)
- Nikki Smith (Fall 2020)
- Ryan Hallstrom (Winter 2020)
- Josie Manwill (Winter 2020)
- Sam Heywood (Fall 2019)
- Ann Johnston (Winter 2019)
- Allison Patterson (Winter 2019)
- Sarah Rounsville (Fall 2018)
- Rachel Hendrickson (Summer 2018)
- Samuel Hauber (Winter 2018)
- Natalie Larsen (Winter 2018)
- Marc Wein (Winter 2018)
- Dani Carmack (Fall 2017)
- Joshua Franzen (Summer 2017)
- Interns Supervised:
- Intermountain Histories Internship Coordinator
- 2015-present
- Redd Center Research Assistant Supervisor
- RAs Supervised:
- Lindsey Meza (Fall 2022-Winter 2023)
- Makoto Hunter (Fall 2021-Winter 2022)
- Ryan Hallstrom (Fall 2020-Winter 2021)
- Allison Patterson (Fall 2019-Winter 2020)
- Rachel Hendrickson (Winter 2019)
- Emily Cook (Spring 2018)
- Joshua Franzen (Fall 2017-Winter 2018)
- Aubrey Glazier (Summer 2017)
- Tanner Tolman (Summer 2017)
- Addison Blair (Winter 2017)
- Drew Rupard (2016)
- RAs Supervised:
- Redd Center Research Assistant Supervisor
BYU Campus Service:
- 2022-
- Newsletter Editor, History Department
- 2022-
- Faculty Advisor, Trail Running Club
- 2022
- Student Awards Committee Chair, History Department
- 2019-present
- BYU Slavery Project, Steering Committee Chair
- 2018-20
- Constitution Day Committee Chair
- 2019-19
- The Theatean Faculty Advisor, History Department
- 2016-17
- Student Recruitment Committee, History Department
- 2016
- Student Awards Committee, History Department
- 2015-18
- Constitution Day Committee Member
Graduate Thesis and Dissertation Committee Service:
- 2018
- Brian Bevan. “An Oral History of Refugees in Utah.” M.A. Thesis, Department of Religious Education, Brigham Young University.
- 2013
- Robert Wilburn Brown Jr. “Unsurpassed Courage and Determination: Pender’s Brigade from Richmond to Chancellorsville.” M.A. Thesis, Department of History, University of Nebraska at Kearney.
- 2012
- Shelley R. Frear. “The Genoa Indian School, A Mixed Legacy: 50 Years of Transformation, survival, and Hope in a United States Government Indian Boarding School on the Nebraska Plains.” M.A. Thesis, Department of History, University of Nebraska at Kearney.
- Freda Bradley, “Evolutionary Response to Federal Programs in the Rural Mid-Ohio Valley of West Virginia: From Economic Collapse to Valuable Wartime Partner.” M.A. Thesis, Department of History, University of Nebraska at Kearney.
- Kaylene Vieselmeyer, “Sacred Soil: The Influence of the Family Farm in Shaping America’s Identity.” M.A. Thesis, Department of History, University of Nebraska at Kearney.
- Amber Alexander, “Fighting the War from Home: The Impact of the Fairmont, Harvard, and Bruning Army Air Fields on Rural Nebraska Residents.” M.A. Thesis, Department of History, University of Nebraska at Kearney.
- Brian Chmielewski, “James Wilson: The Forgotten Founding Father,” M.A. Thesis, Department of History, University of Nebraska at Kearney.
- John Stratton, “Des Moines Ordinance Plant: Ankeny, Iowa, on the home Front During World War II.” M.A. Thesis, Department of History, University of Nebraska at Kearney.