Teaching

I teach courses on the ancient world and digital approaches in very much the same method. My courses emphasize experiential learning, working with ancient texts, or computational methods just outside of their core set of knowledge in order to build a functional tool-set form which to form their own perspectives on the material. I endeavor to make the lives of people in ancient Mesopotamia relevant by including interesting personal stories mined from corpora of ancient letters or administrative archives. My students are expected to write history themselves by using primary sources documents in class to assemble, collaboratively, a shared understanding about an ancient Sumerian king or Babylonian copper merchant.