I am an Associate Professor of History in the Social Sciences Department at San Diego Mesa College. I was previously an Assistant Professor of History at San Diego Mesa College from August 2015-August 2019.
Before coming to Mesa, I taught for two years (Instructor-tenure path) in the Department of History and Government at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma.
I also taught for a total of seven years as an adjunct (part-time) Instructor at four different colleges and universities in Ohio and California (see Curriculum Vitae for details).
For a total of six years, I worked for the University of Dayton/School Study Council of Ohio. I worked for over three years on a federally-funded K-12 national research project analyzing the inclusion and success rates of students with disabilities on statewide assessments. I also worked as a project assistant for a variety of grant funded projects, a grant researcher/writer, and an evaluation specialist (designing, tabulating, evaluating survey data, producing reports, etc., for a wide variety of programs and projects).
While in graduate school at OU and UCR, I served as both a teaching assistant and research assistant.
Before becoming an academic, I had a variety of other jobs. From ages 15-22, I worked as a carpenter (framing houses and condos), in two different glass factories (making picture tubes for RCA televisions, making and packaging glassware for Anchor-Hocking), stocking shelves in department stores (Hill's, Wal-Mart), loading trucks, and a few other temporary manual labor jobs.