Simon Fraser University

Hist 130 Modern World History

Hist 254 China to 1800: The Middle Kingdom in Global Perspective

Hist 300 Approaches to History: The World Historian's Craft

Hist 388 Christianity and Globalization

Hist 468 Problems in the History of Religion: Global Jesus

Hist 472 Problems in World History: The Early-Modern World

Hist 489 Studies in History (Directed Readings)

Hist 812 Comparative History: The Early-Modern World

Hist 892 Religion and Society: Early-Modern Religion

SFU is a superb place to study (and to teach) world history. HIST 130 Modern World History introduces the subject and serves as a gateway to the more than one hundred courses the department offers, including almost two dozen that are global or comparative. Advanced seminars such as HIST 468 and HIST 472 offer capstone experiences that build on your years of history study to facilitate major research projects. Undergraduates interested in the wider world are encouraged to learn an exotic language, have adventures abroad, and join the World History Association. Keen students should contact me about directed readings courses, on early-modern Catholicism, mathematics, Buddhism, history pedagogy, comparative philosophy, and religion & empire in early-modern India. I've sponsored readings groups in Latin and Classical Arabic, and would also be interested in working with students on Literary Chinese or Pali.

I have supervised and cheerleadered graduate work on Christianity in early-modern Europe, America, China, and the Middle East. Each year I offer graduate courses in world history and the history of religion, and I am eager to supervise well-prepared students interested in religion and early-modern world history. With Derryl MacLean, Hilmar Pabel, Emily O'Brien, and John Craig, SFU is one of the best places in Canada to study early-modern religion at an advanced level.

University of California, Berkeley

Survey of World History, Spring 2004

Early-Modern World History Seminar, Fall 2003

Practice and Theory of Teaching History Graduate Seminar, Fall 2003, with Rachel Chico

Mathematics in the Early-Modern World Seminar, Spring 2003, with Joseph Flenner

History of Alchemy, Spring 1997, with Nancy Lai

European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present, Fall 1999, Spring 2000

San Quentin State Prison Ancient World History, Summer 2003