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the parezcoydigo year in review

Posted on December 31, 2011 by ctb — Leave a comment

It was a pretty good year here at parezcoydigo. Page views were up more than 30%. In looking back at the posts, it’s fun to see what I’ve been preoccupied with in this space, which I’ve tried to keep focused…

thinking world history

Posted on October 3, 2011 by ctb — 1 Comment

In the Spring semester I’ll be teaching a graduate seminar called, “Teaching World History.” In my department, we have essentially four caucuses for the purposes of of graduate teaching: US History, Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Modern Europe, and World,…

teaching philosophy

Posted on September 26, 2011 by ctb — 3 Comments

As part of the tenure process, I have to write a statement on my teaching philosophy and give examples of putting that philosphy into practice. I always find exercises such as this to feel very strange in the doing. In…