I am a 2nd year PhD student in the department of history. I have an MA degree in late medieval, Italian history from UCI as well. The research for my PhD; however, is much different. Now, I primarily focus on the history of skin, analyzing tattoos and brandings in ancient regime France (i.e. pre-revolution). Even though I focus primarily on France, I also look at the French Caribbean, mainly the colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti). I have a book review that will be published soon in the Journal of the Early Republic on Manuel Covo's monograph "Entrepôt of Revolutions: Saint Domingue, Commercial Sovereignty, and the French-American Alliance" (Oxford, 2022). In between finishing my MA and beginning my PhD, I was a 7th grade world history teacher in Phoenix. I have also been a DTEI (Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation) fellow, and developed my own course entitled, HIS 70A: Protecting the Empire: Women, Indios, Africans, and Witchcraft in New Spain. In my free time, I like to buy and sell rare/antiquarian books.
Courses Typically Taught:
- I have TA'd for world history survey courses, European history courses, and religions classes.
Themes Typically Taught:
- War and Memory, Comparative study of faith traditions, analyzing world history and interconnected systems (social, political, financial, etc.) Queenship and kinship in the medieval world.
Course Descriptions:
- HIS 21B: World History From 1750; HIS 21C: War and Nation, HIS 70D: Latin American Course, HIS 40D: European Queens, REL 130: World Religions
Textbooks Needed:
- Varied selections of readings and book chapters which are available on canvas.
Email: wwiggins@uci.edu