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Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

Chief Executive Officer for The Portico Library.

Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

Durham, United Kingdom

US history tutor at Durham University. Temporary posting to cover maternity leave.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Leading seminar tutor for first and second year students. Responsibilities included facilitating student focused seminar classes, assigning reading on a wide range of topics in American history, maintaining and updating an online database of resources, evaluating students on class participation, grading essays and examination scripts, and determining final grades.Other duties included the design and delivery of interactive workshops to help students effectively locate appropriate… Show more Leading seminar tutor for first and second year students. Responsibilities included facilitating student focused seminar classes, assigning reading on a wide range of topics in American history, maintaining and updating an online database of resources, evaluating students on class participation, grading essays and examination scripts, and determining final grades.Other duties included the design and delivery of interactive workshops to help students effectively locate appropriate source materials and secondary literature for a detailed independent study on a topic in American History. The workshops examine a plethora of online-sources, portals and databases, and through a number of practical tasks helps students build a pertinent resource list to use for their extended piece of work. Show less

Sheffield

Helped design the University’s first year undergraduate syllabus in American history, History of America: From Settlement to Superpower. Duties included organizing seminar groups for over 200 students, overseeing Turnitin submissions, coordinating other first year tutors regarding absences, plagiarism, late essay submissions and progress meetings.

Sheffield

Responsible for delivering a fourteen-week lecture program on basic British history for Japanese and South Korean students at the University’s English Language Teaching Centre. Position requires lecturing, supervising small group discussion, paper grading and field trips.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), History

My research seeks to explore the creation of environmental and ecological ideas in the South during the late nineteenth and early.

Master'S Degree, American History (United States), Distinction

Masters Dissertation: ‘Tennessee Valley Authority and the Roots of Modern Environmentalism in the United States’

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba) (Hons), History, 2:1

Dissertation (First-Class): ‘Regeneration in the New Deal: A Case Study of Camden, Maine, and its Civilian Conservation Corps’