Faculty Advisor Program
The MyHistoryLab Faculty Advisor Program is a peer-to-peer mentoring program that partners experienced MyHistoryLab users with new and potential users to further enhance their knowledge, skill and understanding of how to successfully integrate MyHistoryLab in the classroom. Our Faculty Advisors (FAs) are committed to advancing the support for online learning and sharing their best practices with the MyHistoryLab community.
Meet Our Faculty Advisors
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- Kevin Gannon
- Professor of History
Grand View University
MyHistoryLab - Kevin Gannon is Professor of History at Grand View University, where he teaches US and Latin American history, as well as the occasional Western Civ. course. He graduated from James Madison University with a BA in History, took his Master's at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and earned a Ph.D. at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Gannon's current research focuses on radical social and political movements, riots, and disorder in the revolutionary and antebellum US; he is also interested in theory, historiography, and radical politics in the Revolutionary Atlantic. In his teaching, he strives to fully integrate technology into his courses, providing students opportunities to actively engage primary sources and other historical materials, as well as each other, both in and out of class. Currently, Dr. Gannon is experimenting with various forms of threaded and asynchronous online discussions to enhance active learning in the classroom.
- Courses taught: US Survey I and II; Western Civ. I and II; upper-level seminars in Colonial America, Revolution and Early Republic, and Civil War and Reconstruction; Latin America Survey; History of Mexico; Strategies for Academic Success (1st-year developmental/remedial course); New Student Seminar
- Course format: Traditional
- Book in use: For US Survey, Keene, et al., Visions of America; for Western Civ., Levack, The West: Encounters & Transformations; for Latin American Survey, Martin and Wasserman, Latin America and Its Peoples.
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- Laura Wood
- Professor of History and Government
Tarrant County College, Northwest
MyPoliSciLab, MyHistoryLab - As an award-winning instructor at Tarrant County College for over 20 years, I teach four different courses each semester in three different formats in a total of seven classes: on campus, dual-credit two-way interactive television, and online, and I incorporate technology extensively into my classrooms.
- My courses include World Civilizations I and II, United States History to 1876, United States History Since 1877, and U.S. Government. In the past I have team taught an Honors Western Civilizations I course, developed a course focusing upon America and World War II, and team taught a World Civilizations/Interpersonal Communications travel course to the Salzburg Global Seminar. I have taught in the Honors Program and developed year-long projects for our students, such as directing the construction of an on-campus war memorial. With my background in European history, International Relations and Military History, I teach American history and politics in a global context.
- I also work as a developer of various teaching pedagogy for textbook publishers, write online interactive historical simulations, and train other faculty how to successfully incorporate technology into their teaching styles. Also, I use new technologies to create innovative assignments that foster student interest in history, historical analysis, and global perspectives.
- In 2001 I was awarded my district's Chancellor's Award for Exemplary Teaching as well as chosen as a Minnie Stevens' Piper Professor for the State of Texas. I have also been a nominee for the U.S. Professor of the Year, named to Who's Who Among American College Professors for twelve years, and served for twelve years as department chair.
- As part of my research and teaching, I have participated in the Salzburg Global Seminar, been chosen as a Freeman Fellow, and participated in the NEH Summer Seminar in Rome. In 2010 I received an NEH Teaching Development Fellowship to create an online interactive teaching website and database that incorporates world history, war memorials and military cemeteries to teach about public memory and commemorations across time and place.
- Courses taught: U.S. Government (at this time)
- Course format: Traditional, Online and Hybrid
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- Cheryl Siebert Waite
- Adjunct Professor
Community College of Aurora
Metropolitan State College
MyHistoryLab - Cheryl Siebert Waite is an adjunct professor of U.S. and Women’s History at the Community College of Aurora and Metropolitan State College of Denver. She is also an Academic Advisor at the Community College of Aurora.
- Cheryl Waite is a native of Colorado, but lived in North Carolina for several years. She attended Community College of Aurora, Meredith College (Raleigh, North Carolina) and University of Colorado at Denver as an undergraduate student. She earned her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in History with an emphasis in Public and Women's history at the University of Colorado at Denver.
- Cheryl has taught history for six years and began using MyHistoryLab over two years ago and found that students, both face-to-face and online gain a better understanding of history through the primary source readings and images offered. The students are able to listen to music and watch videos from the time period they are studying to compliment their readings. Many of the students have commented at the end of the semester how much they enjoyed using MyHistoryLab and that it brought out information that otherwise would not have been covered in the class.
- Course taught: United States History to the Civil War, United States History from 1865 to Present, Women in World History, Women in U.S. History and Western Civilization.
- Course format: Traditional, Hybrid and Online
- Book in use: Keene et al, Visions of America: a History of the United States, volumes 1 and 2, 1e; Buhle, Women and the Making of America, combined volume, 1e
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