I have a long relationship with Southeast Missouri State University. As a child, I went to the Campus School from kindergarten to seventh grade. After graduating from Cape Central High School, I went to Southeast for a year before transferring to Washington University. There I earned a BA with a double major in English Language and Literature and German Language and Literature in 1987. After taking a couple of years off to learn the craft of woodworking in Boston, Massachusetts, I returned to my home state to attend the University of Missouri-Columbia where I earned an MA in European History in 1994.

In 2006 I began working for Southeast Missouri State University as an instructor in history. I traveled the backroads of the bootheel as I taught at the regional campuses of Sikeston, Malden, and Kennett. In 2010 I came to the main campus where I teach American History 1 and 2, European History 1 and 2, and Modern World History both in Cape and in Sikeston.

Best Advice for Students:

Read, read, and then read some more. History is endlessly fascinating. As Harry Truman once said, "There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know."