Guest blogger John Corcoran received his PhD from Georgetown University in 2012. His dissertation examined the political culture of local self-government in late Imperial Russia. His current research interests include zemstvo liberalism and social welfare programs. Since 2012, he has been a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Goucher College in Towson, […]
Teaching Historiography to Undergraduates
It Ain’t Easy Being a Green Screen
Creating Video Lectures: Storytelling
Creating Video Lectures–Behind the Scenes
Is Anyone Out There?
Using Alternative Projects in Russian History Courses
Digital + Liberal Arts = Employability?
Alyssa DeBlasio: Some Problems I Encountered Using Class-sourcing
This blog was founded by Karl Qualls, Associate Professor of History at Dickinson College. Karl has received the Constance and Rose Ganoe Memorial Award for Inspirational Teaching, Gamma Sigma Alpha National Honor Society Professor of the Year, and Student Senate Professor of the Year. He is the author of numerous articles and chapters, including a chapter in the textbook Russia and Western Civilization: Cultural and Historical Encounters (M.E. Sharpe, 2003) written in collaboration with his colleagues at Dickinson College. He is also author of the monograph From Ruins to Reconstruction: Urban Identity in Soviet Sevastopol after World War II (Cornell, 2009). He teaches Russian, German, Italian, and eastern European histories, as well as courses on European dictators, urban history, historical methods, the Holocaust, and more.
