06/02/2026
Meet the faculty for NIAHD summer session #1! Dr. Tyler Goldberger and Dr. Mark Guerci (top) are returning to teach HIST 218: The Road to the US Civil War. They combine teaching and research expertise on the antebellum United States and the Civil War, as well as on public history and memory in civil wars internationally.
Dr. Sarah McCartney, Zoë Packel, and Dr. Elliot Warren (bottom row) will teach HIST 217: The Road to the American Revolution. Dr. McCartney and Dr. Warren have worked respectively on colonial and public history, and the political economy of the Age of Revolutions. We enthusiastically welcome Zoë Packel, our only new instructor this session, whose research expertise on indigenous and environmental history in the course's time period will be a boon for students, and who joins us while dissertating--no easy feat, as all the others could tell us!
NIAHD's instructional model is collaborative: instructors work together on daily site visits and share readings and assignments, but typically separate into smaller sections for reading analysis and discussion. The Session 1 team collectively has over 25 years of experience teaching in NIAHD's place-based model, much of it from the wonderful Drs. McCartney and Guerci, who are also distinguished in that they started with NIAHD once-upon-a-time as William & Mary undergraduates. The team also has many years of teaching experience in the academic year.
In the NIAHD office, we're hard at work with all the nitty-gritty that make the program possible--getting our vans roadtrip-ready, setting up course packets for printing, and taking in all the forms (so many!) that make us ready to welcome you to William and Mary. Please be in touch with questions.
Oh, and: there's just a few days left to apply for Session 2!
