Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Department: College of Arts, Education, and Humanities
Phone: 610-282-1100, x1139
Office: 252 Dooling Hall
My teaching and research explore how human relationships with the environment have changed throughout history. My 2024 dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania, "Disastrous Legacies: Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, and Florida in the Hurricane's Eye in 1928 and Beyond," explored how various Caribbean and circum-Caribbean societies responded to a recovered from a devastating 1928 hurricane. Using archival records, literature, interviews, artwork, and commemorative sites, I showed how the disastrous legacies of slavery and colonialism continued shaping who was most vulnerable in these societies deep into the twentieth century.
My classes at DeSales University help students understand both the methods and the theories behind contemporary historians' work. Students then apply these skills and ideas in their own analysis of primary and secondary sources to better understand for themselves our world and its history. Their education in history helps them became not only better analysts of complex systems and ideas, but better communicators of their thoughts.