I work hard to assist students in their quest to become responsible for their own learning and expand their learning autonomy. I have extensive experience teaching and tutoring. Teaching classes requires me to do extensive research in current scholarship and current events, lecture organization, composition, administration and grading of assessments (both exams and essays). I also guide small-group discussions of specialized historical and anthropological scholarship outside of class. I have passed the NES/AEPA subject area exams in Human Geography, History, and Political Science, and I am far along in the process for Teacher's Internship Certification. While teaching at a university over a four-year span, I worked with a broad range of undergraduate students who hailed from diverse backgrounds. I taught non-degree freshman and upper-class history majors as the instructor of record in history courses and both halves of the world history survey. In this capacity, I worked with students using primary sources and advanced secondary sources. I concentrated on encouraging my students to practice critical thinking skills through close reading of historical sources, as well as to contemplate historical connections across national boundaries. I also worked as a graduate assistant for classes on colonial and modern U. S. History, as well as U.S. Women's history. From 2012-2014, I mentored and tutored for undergraduate students with learning disabilities and student athletes, acquainting them with the expectations of the academy and introducing them to university resources, study techniques, and the work of scholars in a variety of disciplines.