Courtney approaches history the way she approaches ecology: by tracing how interconnected systems — economic, political, environmental — produce specific outcomes. She teaches students to analyze primary sources and build cause-and-effect arguments rather than memorize dates, which strengthens both ...

Jacob treats history the way he treats a play: every event has competing perspectives, hidden motivations, and consequences that ripple forward. His psychology background makes him especially sharp at teaching students to analyze primary sources for bias and to construct document-based essays that g...

Too many students treat history as a list of names and dates to memorize, then wonder why essay prompts feel impossible. John — who holds a history BA and a law PhD — teaches the discipline as an exercise in argument: identifying causes, weighing evidence, and writing claims that hold up under scrut...

Biomedical engineering might seem far from history, but Alyssa's research background — parsing dense studies, tracing how one discovery led to the next, and communicating findings clearly — translates surprisingly well to historical analysis. She teaches students to organize their thinking around ca...

Most students struggle with history not because the facts are hard but because they don't know how to build an argument from primary sources. Amanda, who does this daily as a graduate researcher and college instructor, walks students through document analysis, periodization, and cause-and-effect rea...

Majoring in both Spanish and biochemistry means Julia constantly toggles between close reading of texts in another language and building arguments from empirical evidence — two skills that converge when tackling history's document-based questions and analytical essays. Her English minor adds a third...

Teaching a Socratic-seminar writing course at Barrett Honors College meant Madeleine spent semesters leading students through exactly the kind of source-driven argumentation that history assignments demand — building a thesis from evidence, not just summarizing what happened. Her applied mathematics...

Mechanical engineering trains you to think in systems — how one decision cascades into consequences — and Nitesh applies that same logic to historical analysis, where political, economic, and technological forces collide. He's especially useful for students who need to structure essay responses arou...

Studying Global Studies at ASU and spending a year and a half abroad across Asia gave Gabrielle an unusual vantage point on world history — she's lived inside the cultural contexts most textbooks only describe. She teaches students to analyze primary sources, trace cause-and-effect across eras, and ...

Computer science trains you to think in systems — inputs, processes, outputs — and Ken brings that same logic to history, teaching students to trace how specific conditions (economic pressure, political alliances, technological change) produced specific outcomes. That systematic approach is particul...