I work with clients who want their teaching, research, and institutional systems to be more coherent and more equitable in ways they can sustain over time. My consulting practice grows out of my work as a historian and university teacher, as well as my experience in pedagogy consulting. I return to a few basic questions: What problem are you trying to solve, and what would count as real change in your context?

Rather than offering a generic template, I begin by clarifying your goals and constraints, then co-design concrete next steps that fit your institution and discipline and that respect your time horizon.

Pedagogy and Curriculum Design

I support faculty, graduate instructors, and academic programs that want to make courses more intellectually rigorous and more accessible at the same time. Drawing on my work in equity-focused teaching and faculty development, I help clients:

• Redesign syllabi and participation structures so that learning goals are explicit and realistic

• Align activities and assessments with those goals so that students understand what counts as success

• Address predictable pressure points such as feedback load, grading policies, and classroom climate

For departments and programs, I consult on curricular coherence across multiple courses, including gateway sequences and capstone or writing-intensive requirements.

Typical projects range from a one-time syllabus review to multi-week collaborations on course or curriculum redesign.

Equity-Focused Teaching and Educational Development

Many institutions speak about “inclusion” in the abstract yet struggle to change everyday classroom practice. I approach equity-focused teaching as a set of habits. I work with instructors and programs to:

• Analyze how course structures and policies shape student experience across lines of race, class, disability, nationality, and religion

• Develop concrete strategies for more equitable participation, assessment, and feedback

• Create department-level or program-level workshops that address both pedagogical technique and institutional culture

My work is informed by current research on learning and by my experience as a graduate student instructional consultant, including ongoing engagement with students from a wide range of backgrounds.

Research and Knowledge-Work Systems

Academic and professional life often rewards output while leaving people to improvise their own systems. I help scholars and practitioners build workflows that are intellectually honest and realistically maintainable. I consult with clients who want to:

• Organize reading, note-taking, and citation practices so that sources are actually reusable in future projects

• Plan writing pipelines for articles, chapters, and public pieces, with attention to scope and revision cycles

• Design personal information management systems that integrate digital tools with existing habits rather than replacing them overnight

These collaborations can take the form of a single diagnostic conversation or a series of sessions that track a specific project from idea to completion.

Historical Reconstruction and Archival Projects

As a historian of modern Europe and the Middle East, I support projects that require careful reconstruction of past events and institutional histories, along with the intellectual lineages that shape them. I am particularly attuned to questions of exile and diaspora and to the ethical stakes of human rights and of representing contested pasts. I work with:

• Scholars and research teams who want to frame archival or oral-history materials for publication or public engagement

• Programs, centers, and nonprofits that need historically grounded backgrounders or white papers

• Faith communities and educational institutions that want to connect institutional memory with present-day commitments

In each case, I help clients clarify the story they wish to tell.

Working Together

I collaborate with individual instructors, research teams, departments, centers, and nonprofits. I am available for one-on-one consultations, small-group workshops, and longer-term partnerships tied to specific initiatives. To discuss a potential project, please use the contact form on this site and include a brief description of your goals, institutional context, and preferred timeline. I will respond with clarifying questions and a proposed scope of work.