Thrilled to continue serving as the Director and Internship Coordinator of Western's MA (est. 1986) & Minor (est. 2017) in Public History. My teaching includes HIS3813E: Public History, as well as HIS2188A/B: Pirates & Piracy on the World's Seas and in the Public Imagination, and HIS2192A/B: Beer: The Business, Social and Cultural History of a Global Beverage!Super pleased with our ongoing partnership with Tourism London to deliver a historical walking tour of Labatt Park, the world's oldest continually operating baseball grounds. Present projects include a history of hockey in London, Ontario and a documentary film on London's own O-Pee-Chee Company!

Resuming my teaching role with Western's MA in Public History and undergraduate program in the Department of History, and continuing as the Public History Internship Coordinator. This year I am teaching the summer and fall/winter offerings of our undergraduate course in public history as our department rolls out Canada's first and only Public History Minor program! (please see brochure below)My teaching duties also include my course: Pirates and Piracy on the World's Seas and in the Public Imagination, named by Maclean's magazine as one of the 'cool courses' to take at Western in the 2018 first edition of its University Rankings. At the graduate level I am continuing to search out new and exciting internship and career opportunities for our MA public history students. Last year's members served their summer internships at a range of institutions, from the Oil Museum of Canada and Niagara Falls Museum, to Parks Canada and Library & Archives Canada, to Port Arthur National Historic Site in Tasmania, Australia! Among several collaborative projects with community partners will be to continue the fine work of last year's group in capturing and telling the stories of the female art community here in London and SW Ontario for the McIntosh Gallery's A Driving Force: Women of the London, Ontario, Visual Arts Community 1867-2017 multimedia website (see link below).Other projects I am involved with this year include events to recognize the centenary of Western University's History Department, and the newly-launched virtual exhibit on Labatt's 170th anniversary, as it coincides with the national Canada 150 celebration (see links below).

In the 2015-2016 academic year, I will be supervising 10 superb graduate students as they delve into the world of public history- bringing the past to life for public audiences. For this year's group project we will be working closely with the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, situated in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to produce virtual exhibits around several major topics in Canadian immigration history including Vietnam War-era American draft dodgers/conscientious objectors and members of the LGBT community to come to Canada. Students will also conduct research and gather materials documenting immigration stories relating to the Underground Railroad, the New England Planters and the Gold Rush (see links below). In addition to assuming the duties of the acting director and the MA public history internship coordinator, I will be teaching the full-year undergraduate course in public history and the undergraduate course on pirates and piracy during the winter term.

This upcoming term I will be teaching our department's undergraduate course in Public History and coordinating summer internships for our keen 14 graduate students in our MA in Public History.Also looking forward to teaching a new undergraduate course: "Pirates and Piracy on the World's Seas and in the Public Imagination" in the Winter term.

This term I am teaching the first half of the core course in our MA in Public History, ie. Public History: Theory, History & Practice, as well as helping administer the day-to-day operations. We have twelve very keen, capable and enthusiastic graduate students ready to apply their knowledge, skills and experience in bettering our local community. Among our exciting activities with the community this year will be working with the London Heritage Planner, the London Advisory Committee on Heritage (LACH) and the London Branch of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario (ACO) on a Heritage Designation Project for the Blackfriars/Petersville and Old South areas of the city. Students will also conduct an Oral History Project for the JP Metras Sports Museum here at Western U. They will be interviewing former athletes and alumni in a continued effort to document the personal and institutional histories of the university. My teaching also includes our Department's undergraduate course in Public History, in which I stress the applicability of the students' skill sets as cultivated in history, as well as in other disciplines at home in the Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities. Students interact with the local community and engage in several group projects with partner institutions, thereby gaining practical hands-on experience and enabling their exploration of career options.

I oversaw eleven MA students in the production of a smartphone app on the War of 1812 focusing on events and sites within the region of southwestern Ontario.

I taught the undergraduate course on organizational behaviour for two years and was a course assistant for the core first-year course on globalization.

I taught undergraduate courses on globalization and human resources management for the Management and Organizational Studies Program.