Jessica Hower received her PhD in History from Georgetown University in 2013, her MA in History from Georgetown University in 2009, and her BA in History and Political Science from Union College in 2006. She was a Royden B. Davis Teaching Fellow at Georgetown University in 2011-2012 and a Dissertation Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in 2012-2013. After serving as Director of Paideia and Undergraduate Research as well as Associate Dean of the Faculty, she is currently serves as Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs. 

She teaches classes on “Empires and Empires of the Mind in World History, ca. 1450-present”; “Early Modern Europe: Politics & Culture, Society & Thought, 1469-1915”; “History of the British Isles, since 1688”; “The Real Game of Thrones: The Medieval Era in History & Legend”; “The Tudors: Politics and Culture, 1485-1603”; “Witches, Nuns, Prostitutes, Wives, & Queens: Women and Gender” (cross-listed with Feminist Studies); “The Theory & Practice of History: Historiography Seminar”; “Capstone Research Seminar: History & Memory”; and a First-Year Seminar (FYS) “A Pirate’s Life for Me: Pirates, Piracy, and Southwestern University”

Honors & Awards

• Brandie Siegfried Award for Best Paper given by a senior scholar, Queen Elizabeth I Society, South Central Renaissance Conference
• Jesse E. Purdy Excellence in Scholarly & Creative Works Research Award, Southwestern University, 2019
• Finalist, “Cutting-Edge Curriculum” Award, General Board of Higher Education, 2017-2018
• University Teaching Award, Southwestern University, 2016
• Wm. Roger Louis Prize for the Best Paper delivered at the Britain and the World Conference, 2014
• Thomas Helde Award for Excellence in Teaching, Georgetown University, 2011-2012
• Joseph D. Doty Prize for coursework in History, Union College
  2005
• Oswald Heck Irwin Steingut Prize for coursework in Political Science, Union College, 2006
• George H. Catlin Prize for highest scholastic record, Union College, 2006
• Seward Interdisciplinary Fellowship Honors Program, Union College, 2003

Grants & Fellowships

• Co-author and Co-PI, Mellon Foundation “Humanities for All Time” Grant, Publicly Engaged Humanities for Social Justice, $1.28 million, Southwestern University, 2024-2026
• Arthur Vining Davis and Associated Colleges of the South Mini-Grant for Strategic Mapping, 2024
• Integrated Learning Faculty Fellow, Southwestern University, 2019-2021
• Society for Renaissance Studies Bursary Fund Grant
  2018
• Competitive Faculty Development Grant, Southwestern University, 2018
• John Fell Oxford University Press Research Fund Grant, 2016
• Sam Taylor Fellowship, General Board of Higher Education, 2015
• Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Grant, American Historical Association, 2015
• Junior Sabbatical, Southwestern University (for Spring 2017), 2015
• Competitive Faculty Development Grant, Southwestern University, 2015
• Competitive Faculty Development Grant, Southwestern University, 2014
• McNeil Center for Early American Studies Dissertation Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2012-2013
• Royden B. Davis Teaching Fellowship, History Department, Georgetown University, 2011-2012
• NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers “English Encounters with the Americas, 1550-1610” led by Mary Fuller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, with funding, July 2011
• Piepho Grant for archival dissertation research, History Department, Georgetown University, Spring 2011
• Non-Service Grant, History Department, Georgetown University
  2010-2011
• Assistant to the Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, Georgetown University, 2008-2010
• Teaching Assistantship, Georgetown University, 2007-2008
• Graduate School Tuition Scholarship, Georgetown University
  2006-2013
• GSAS/History Department International Conference Travel Grant, Georgetown University, 2009
• GSAS/History Department US Conference Travel Grant, Georgetown University, 2008

Affiliations

• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, 2021-present
• Renaissance Society of America, 2018-present
• Ecclesiastical History Society, 2016-present
• Sixteenth-Century Society and Conference, 2016-present
• British Scholar Society (Britain and the World), 2014-present
• North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS), American Historical Association (AHA), Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Alpha Theta, 2006-present
• Advisory Committee, Washington Area Consortium for North American History, 2010-2013

Professional Service

• Deputy Editor, Program Chair, and Member of the Board of Directors, British Scholar Society/Britain and the World, November 2021-present 
• Reviewer, National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR), for selection of student presenters for NUCR 2025 in Pittsburgh, PA, 7-9 April 2025
• Director of Awards & Grants and Member of the Board of Directors, British Scholar Society/Britain and the World, June 2018-November 2021
• Member, Editorial Board, Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice (Routledge, Taylor and Francis), May 2017-present
• Reviewer/Referee, Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice
  April 2021, June 2020, January 2020, September 2021, May 2022, June 2022, March 2023, September 2023, November 2024
• Chair, Plenary Lecture, “The British Traveller Abroad: the Genesis of an Identity,” by Anthony Bale, British Scholar Society Britain and the World Annual Conference, Winchester University, Winchester, UK, June 2024
• Chair, “Negotiating and Navigating Empire, 1580-1680,” British Scholar Society Britain and the World Annual Conference, Winchester University, Winchester, UK, June 2024
• Reviewer/Referee, Routledge, April 2024, December 2023, August 2023
• Reviewer/Referee, Historical Research, May 2023
• Chair, Plenary Luncheon, “In Conversation: Carole Levin,” British Scholar Society Britain and the World Annual Conference, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, US, April 2023
• Chair, “Rivalry and Restoration in the Early Modern British Atlantic,” British Scholar Society Britain and the World Annual Conference, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, US, April 2023
• Chair, Plenary Lecture, “The Last Voyage of the Gloucester (1682): The Politics of a Royal Shipwreck,” by Claire Jowitt, British Scholar Society Britain and the World Annual Conference, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK, June 2022
• Chair, “A Revolutionary Environment, from the Caribbean to Scotland and Back Again” Panel, British Scholar Society Britain and the World Annual Conference, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK, June 2022
• Chair and organizer, “The Academic Job Market: Transatlantic Strategies for Survival and Success” Panel, British Scholar Society Britain and the World Annual Conference, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK, June 2022
• Reviewer/Referee, Palgrave Macmillan Monographs Division, December 2022, March 2023
• Chair and co-organizer, “Queen Mary I and Lady Jane Grey: Posthumous Perspectives and Representations” Panel, Northeastern Conference on British Studies, virtual, October 2021
• Co-organizer, “Queen Mary I and Lady Jane Grey: Contemporary Perspectives and Representations” Panel, Northeastern Conference on British Studies, virtual
  October 2021
• Reviewer/Referee, Britain and the World, January 2021
  Reviewer/Referee, Terrae Incognitae (Society for the History of Discoveries), August 2019
• Director of Awards & Grants and Member of the Board of Directors, British Scholar Society/Britain and the World, June 2018-November 2022
• Member, Editorial Board, Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice (Routledge, Taylor and Francis), May 2017-present
• Co-Organizer, Co-Chair, and Co-Respondent, “Tudor Queenship: History and Historiography” Panel, Society for Renaissance Studies 9th Biennial Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK (panel accepted, conference cancelled due to COVID-19), July 2020
• Co-Organizer, Co-Chair, and Co-Respondent, “Writing Mary I: Fact or Fiction” Panel, Society for Renaissance Studies 9th Biennial Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK (panel accepted, conference cancelled due to COVID-19), July 2020
• Co-Organizer, “Mary in Writing: Letters, Literature, and Representations” Panel, Society for Renaissance Studies 9th Biennial Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK (panel accepted, conference cancelled due to COVID-19), July 2020
• Chair, “Explorers and Emissaries in the Early Modern Empire” Panel, British Scholar Society Britain and the World Annual Conference, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK (invited to chair, conference cancelled due to COVID-19), June 2020
• Reviewer/Referee, Literature and History, November 2019
• Chair, “Rethinking ‘Centers’ and ‘Peripheries’ in the Early Modern World” Panel, British Scholar Society Britain and the World Annual Conference, Kansas City, MO, April 2019
• Chair, “Commercial and Imperial Relationships in the Early Modern British World,” Panel, British Scholar Society Britain and the World Annual Conference, Kansas City, MO, April 2019
• Chair, “Relations and Perceptions in the Early Modern Caribbean” Panel, British Scholar Society Britain and the World Annual Conference, Exeter University, Exeter, UK, June 2018
• Reviewer/Referee, History of Political Thought (Exeter University, Imprint Academic), May 2018
• Chair, “Caribbean Encounters in the Seventeenth Century” Panel, British Scholar Society Britain and the World Annual Conference, University of Texas at Austin, April 2017
• Chair, “Captives, Correspondence, and Culture: The Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World” Panel, British Scholar Society Britain and the World Conference, King’s College London, UK
  June 2016
• Chair, “Directors, Investors, and Overseas Servants: Global Networks Overseas” Panel, British Scholar Society Britain and the World Annual Conference, King’s College London, UK, June 2016
• Chair, “The British Abroad in the Seventeenth Century,” Panel, British Scholar Society Britain and the World Annual Conference, King’s College London, UK, June 2016
• Chair, “Seafaring and Mapping in the Early Modern British World” Panel, British Scholar Society Britain and the World Annual Conference, University of Texas at Austin, April 2015
• Chair, “War and Subjecthood in the 18th Century” Panel, British Scholar Society Britain and the World Annual Conference, University of Texas at Austin, April 2015

University Service, apart from administrative appointments

• Organizer, Charles III and the Future of the British Monarchy,” (Martin Farr, Newcastle University), April 2023
• Co-Chair, Search Committee, History Department (Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of African History), Fall 2022-Spring 2024
• Search Committee Member, Southwestern University (Vice President for Student Life), Fall 2022-Spring 2023
• Search Committee Member, Southwestern University (Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning), Fall 2022-Spring 2024
• Search Committee Member, History Department (Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of East Asian History), Fall 2021-Spring 2022
• Affiliated Faculty and Committee Member, Feminist Studies
• Member, Early Modern Studies Program (Interdisciplinary Minor)
• Chair and Humanities Area Representative, Awards & Honors Committee
• Co-Leader, London Semester Study Abroad Program, Fall 2017

Books:

Tudor Empire: The Making of Early Modern Britain and the British Atlantic World, 1485-1603 (Basingstoke and NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) (single-authored monograph), December 2020

Mary I in Writing: Letters, Literature, and Representation (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), co-edited volume, with Valerie Schutte, April 2022

• Winner of the 2022-2023 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Best Collaborative Project Award

Writing Mary I: History, Historiography, and Fiction (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), co-edited volume, with Valerie Schutte, May 2022

• Winner of the 2022-2023 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Best Collaborative Project Award

Mid-Tudor Queenship and Memory: The Making and Re-Making of Lady Jane Grey and Mary I, ed. Valerie Schutte and Jessica S. Hower (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), September 2023

Articles and Book Chapters:

“Teaching Pirates: The Perils and Promises of Using Piracy in Pedagogy,” The History Teacher, forthcoming (accepted October 2024)

“Utopia’s Empire: Thomas More, Utopia, and the Early British Imperial World” in More’s Utopia, ed. Cathy Shrank and Phil Withington (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024).

“‘As the Kinges of this Realme her most noble Progenitours’: Historical Fashioning and Self-Fashioning at the Accession of Mary I” in Mid-Tudor Queenship and Memory: The Making and Re-Making of Lady Jane Grey and Mary I, ed. Valerie Schutte and Jessica S. Hower (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). 

“Introduction,” in Mid-Tudor Queenship and Memory: The Making and Re-Making of Lady Jane Grey and Mary I, ed. Valerie Schutte and Jessica S. Hower (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).

“‘Horrible and Bloudye’ or ‘Most Serene and Potent’: Mary I and Empire,” in Mary I in Writing: Letters, Literature, and Representation, ed. Jessica S. Hower and Valerie Schutte (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). 

“Introduction,” co-written with Valerie Schutte, in Mary I in Writing: Letters, Literature, and Representation, ed. Jessica S. Hower and Valerie Schutte (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).

“Introduction,” co-written with Valerie Schutte, in Writing Mary I: History, Historiography, and Fiction, ed. Jessica S. Hower and Valerie Schutte (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).

“‘… And Greedily Deuoured Them’: The Cannibalism Discourse and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1536-1612,” in To Feast on Us as Their Prey: Cannibalism in the Early Modern Atlantic, edited by Rachel B. Herrmann (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2019), 97-114.

• Winner of 2020 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award

“‘All Good Stories’: Historical Fiction in Pedagogy, Theory, and Scholarship,” Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice volume 23, no. 1 (February 2019): 78-125.

“Under One (Inherited) Imperial Crown: The Global Origins of Britain and its Empire, 1603-1625,” Britain and the World: Historical Journal of the British Scholar Society, volume 8, no. 2 (September 2015): pp. 160-180.

“An Experiment in British Empire: Henry VIII in Tournai, 1513-1519,” Memoires de la Société Royale d’Histoire et d’Archéologie de Tournai, volume 14 (2014): pp. 81-145.

Article-length manuscripts:

“‘Sole hope of Caesar’s Side’: Renaissance Humanism and History in the Reign of Mary I and Philip II,” in Mary Tudor and Continental Humanism, ed. Anna Sáez-Hidalgo and Valerie Schutte (under contract with Brepols Press)

• Invited for submission and proposal accepted, March 2022
• Chapter fully drafted in December 2023, accepted with minor revisions in April 2024, revised and submitted final draft in June 2024, now awaiting publication

“‘And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost’: Alternative Narratives of the First Tudor King,” in The Tudors, Myth, and Memory: Embroidered Truths and Outright Falsehoods That Influence Popular Belief, ed. William B. Robison and Valerie Schutte

• Invited for submission and proposal accepted, March 2022
• Chapter fully drafted in October 2023, accepted with minor revisions in March 2024, revised and submitted final draft in March 2024, now awaiting publication

Book manuscripts:

Editor and contributor, The Routledge Companion to History as Literature, Literature as History, under contract with Routledge, December 2024

Britain and the World, 1603-2016 (co-authored with Stephen Conway, Bryan S. Glass, and Martin Farr; contributing Part I, consisting of four chapters on the seventeenth century), under contract with Palgrave MacMillan, as of December 2015, contribution fully outlined, 2016, postponed indefinitely as of 2020

Conference Presentations

• “‘Solemnisated in the citie of Winchester’: History and Memory at the Marriage of Mary I and Philip of Spain,” British Scholar Society Britain and the World Annual Conference, University of Winchester, UK, June 2024

   

• “Inward-looking, Paranoid Miser No More: Henry VII,” invited participant in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Monarchy and Myth-Making Roundtable, International Congress of Medieval Studies (ICMS), Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2024

   

• “‘The precedent of Queen Catherine’: History, Motherhood, and Reign of Mary I,” Kings and Queens 12 Conference: Royal Success(ion), Uppsala University, Sweden, June 2023, accepted to conference and then declined invitation

   

• “‘The recovery of her ancestral and hereditary right’: History, Memory, and Female Succession in the Mid-Tudor Era,” Female Succession in Late Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy—Contestation, Conflict, and Compromise Conference, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain, virtual, May 2023

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  “A Tale of Two Pales: Ireland and Calais in the Tudor Imperial World,” Keynote Lecture, Queen Elizabeth I Society, South Central Renaissance Conference, University of California, Berkeley, CA, April 2023

   

• “‘Sole Hope of Caesar’s Side’: Renaissance Humanism and History in the Reign of Mary I and Philip II,” Northeast Conference on British Studies, Bates College, Lewistown, ME, October 2022

   

• “‘An empire of itself’: Constructing and Contesting Imperial Kingship in the Early Modern World,” Kings and Queens 11 Conference: Monarchy and Empire, Royal Studies Network, University of Nantes, France, June 2022

   

• “Patrons of Empire: Mary I, Philip II, and the Broadening British World, 1553-1558,” British Scholar Society Annual Britain and the World Conference, Univeristy of Plymouth, UK, June 2022

   

• “‘Verye true and undoubted heire and inheritrix’: Mary I, Lady Jane Grey, and History,” Queen Elizabeth I Society, South Central Renaissance Conference, March 2022

   

• “‘Most rightful enheritoure of the crowne imperial of England’: Mary I, Lady Jane Grey, and the Power of Historical Precedent,” Northeast Conference on British Studies, October 2021

   

• “The Lives and Afterlives of Tudor Empire: Henry VII, the Cabot Voyages, and the Memory of England’s First Trans-Atlantic Encounters, 1496-1685,” British Scholar Society Britain and the World Annual Conference, virtual (paper from 2020 conference re-submitted, accepted, and presented), June 2021

   

• “Dressing an Empire: Elizabeth I, the Armada, and the Creation of an Atlantic World,” Dressing a Picture: Reimagining the Court Portrait, 1500-1800, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK (changed to virtual due to COVID-19), May 2021

   

• “‘To her whose virtues and kingdoms he inherits’: The Politics and Practice of Tudor Imperial Queenship,” Queen Elizabeth I Society, South Central Renaissance Conference, virtual (paper from 2020 conference re-submitted, accepted, and presented), March 2021

   

• “‘This prudent Atlas’: Lord Burghley and the Making of an Early Modern British Atlantic World,” Lord Burghley 500 Conference, St. John’s College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK (paper accepted, conference cancelled due to COVID-19), September 2020

   

• “Half-Decades of the Newe Worlde: Mary I and Empire,” Society for Renaissance Studies 9^th Biennial Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK (paper accepted, conference cancelled due to COVID-19), July 2020

   

• “Study Abroad: Teaching Britain and the World, in Britain and the World,” Roundtable, British Scholar Society Britain and the World Annual Conference, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK (invited to contribute, conference cancelled due to COVID-19), June 2020

   

• “The Lives and Afterlives of Tudor Empire: Henry VII, the Cabot Voyages, and the Memory of England’s First Trans-Atlantic Encounters, 1496-1685,” British Scholar Society Britain and the World Annual Conference, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK (paper accepted, conference cancelled due to COVID-19), June 2020

   

• “‘To her whose virtues and kingdoms he inherits’: The Politics and Practice of Tudor Imperial Queenship,” Queen Elizabeth I Society, South-Central Renaissance Conference, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX (paper accepted, conference canceled due to COVID-19), March 2020

• “From Benign Mascot to Enemy of All Mankind, and Back Again: The Problem and Promise of Piracy in Pedagogy,” The Problem of Piracy: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Plunder by Sea across the World from the Ancient to the Modern, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, June 2019
• “‘Discended of bastard blood’: The Creation of Monarchy, Nation, and Empire in the Early Modern British World, ca. 1480-1513,” Monarchy and Modernity, 1500-1945 Conference, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, January 2019
• “‘Partners Both’ in Gender and Empire: Mary I, Elizabeth I, and the Construction of Female Imperial Kingship, ca. 1550-1570,” Kings & Queens 7: Ruling Sexualities: Sexuality, Gender, & the Crown Conference, University of Winchester and Hampton Court Palace, UK, July 2018
• “‘Bloody’ or ‘Most Serene and Potent’? Mary I, The British Empire, and the Making of the Early Modern Atlantic World,” British Scholar Society Britain and the World Annual Conference, Exeter University, Exeter, UK, June 2018
• “‘Thy bright sphere’: Elizabeth I, the Armada, and the Atlantic World, ca. 1570-1600,” Elizabeth I: The Armada and Beyond, 1588 to 2018 Conference, Royal Museums Greenwich and the Society for Court Studies, Queen’s House and National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK, April 2018
•  “Tudor Empire: The Making of Britain and the British Atlantic World,” The Long History of Ethnicity & Nationhood Reconsidered Seminar Series, Michaelmas Term 2017, sponsored by TORCH: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, Bing Overseas Studies Program Stanford University, and the University of Birmingham BRIHC: Birmingham Research Institute for History and Cultures, Stanford House, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, October 2017
• “From ‘Tydder’ to ‘Tudor,’ ‘Stewart’ to ‘Stuart’: Dynasty, Empire, and Identity in the Early Modern Atlantic World,” The Modern Invention of Dynasty: A Global Intellectual History, 1500-2000 Conference, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, September 2017
• “‘To bere the sam good hart’ of Empire: The Meaning and Making of British Imperialism in the Sixteenth Century,” British Scholar Society Britain and the World Annual Conference, University of Texas at Austin, April 2017
• “‘We could not suffer it’: Kings, Popes, and the Construction of British Empire, ca. 1450-1550,” Church and Empire Conference, Ecclesiastical History Society Winter Meeting, Magdalene College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, January 2017
• “Utopia’s Empire: Thomas More, his Readers, and the Development of British Imperialism in the Tudor Century,” Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Bruges, Belgium, August 2016
• “Auld Enemies and Auld Empires: Scotland, England, and Early Modern British Imperialism,” Imperial Comparison Conference, All Souls College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, July 2016
• “A Whig in Wolf’s Clothing: Pop Culture, Historical Fiction, and British History, from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Hilary Mantel,” British Scholar Society Britain and the World Annual Conference, King’s College, London, UK, June 2016
• “The Afterlives of John Cabot: The History, Heritage, and Memory of England’s First Trans-Atlantic Encounters, 1496-1707,” Trans-Atlantic Dialogues on Cultural Heritage: Heritage, Tourism and Traditions Conference, Liverpool, UK, Paper selected following double-blind peer review, July 2015, Final version accepted for publication in the official Conference Proceedings volume, October 2015
• “‘… And greedily devoured them’: The Cannibalism Discourse and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1536- 1612,” Cannibalism in the Early Modern Atlantic Conference, University of Southampton, UK, June 2015
• “The First Scottish Empire: Scotland, Britain, and the Early Modern Imperial World,” British Scholar Society Britain and the World Annual Conference, University of Texas at Austin, April 2015
•  “Utopian Diasporas: English Migration, Empire, and Englishness in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,” The Global English: Historical Perspectives Conference, Northumbria University, UK, July 2014
• “Under One (Inherited) Imperial Crown: The Global Origins of Britain and its Empire, 1603-1625,” British Scholar Society Britain and the World Annual Conference, Newcastle University, UK, June 2014
• “‘Ungracious Dogholes’: The Henrician British Empire in Tournai, Ireland, and Newfoundland, 1513-1527,” Early Modern Global History Seminar, Institute for Global History, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, December 2012
• “The Stuart Legacy of Henry VIII: The King in History, 1603-1688,” presented before “Henry VIII and the Tudor Court, 1509-2009,” special academic conference to mark the 500^thanniversary of Henry VIII’s accession to the throne, Hampton Court Palace, Surrey, UK, July 2009
• “Henry VIII, Tournai, and the Origins of the British Empire,” presented before the North American Conference on British Studies, Cincinnati, OH, October 2008

University Talks & Presentations

• “First-Year Seminar Sneak Preview” Panel, Admitted Students Day, March 2015, April 2016, April 2018, March 2019
• “‘Beneath Every History, Another History’: Historical Fiction in Teaching, Theory, & Scholarship,” President’s Appreciation Celebration, September 2018
• “Getting into Graduate School” Panel, Office of Career Services
  September 2016, September 2018
• “Treasure Island, Piracy, and the Liberal Arts at Southwestern University,” Fall Saturday Admissions Program, November 2015, December 2015, November 2016
• “Teacher-Scholar Presentation on Innovative Pedagogies,” Dean of the Faculty’s Teacher-Scholar Series, November 2014