I’ll let the above video stand in for a whole host of different developments that have happened between January and now that has been at the crux on my internet silence for the bulk of this year. In short: a constantly growing/changing/keeping-one-on-one’s-toes baby, a new job, passing comprehensive exams, selling old house, buying new house, packing, moving, visiting family and friends.
So, yeah, that’s the short version. I don’t get much more pithy than that, though I’m sure that greater depth will emerge regarding those topics pertinent to this blog in the next weeks and months.
In fact, I think resuscitating this as a forum for my thinking and sharing of work will be a huge help in getting myself organized and productively working the new courses I’ll be teaching, the interdisciplinary collaboration I’ll be doing, and the dissertation research and writing that I’ll also be chipping away at in the next few years. As a result, I’ll leave this post short and relatively substance-free (you’re welcome!) as I hope the make the next few not only more frequent, but also more focused on particular topics related to planning, organizing, and pacing courses, writing recommendation letters, and the like.
Originally from Salt Lake City, UT, Nate Kogan taught for eight years in Fort Worth, Texas, but is now back in his hometown teaching Upper School History at Rowland Hall. Nate is also a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Arlington studying Transatlantic History. Nate holds a B.A. in history and architectural history from Columbia College, Columbia University (NY), and an M.A. in history from the University of Texas at Arlington.
His pedagogical interests presently center on how to integrate technology into the classroom to encourage greater student accountability, self-directedness, and improved critical thinking and research skills. His historical research interests center on transatlantic religious and disability history. Some of Nate's previous research, (largely the result of his upbringing as a Jewish gentile in the land formerly known as Deseret) Nate wrote about the history of the LDS Church, its changing presentation of identity to various outsider groups, and its concomitant quest for integration into the mainstream. His dissertation focuses on the role of Quaker transatlantic humanitarians in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and how their advocacy served to help Quakers gain legitimacy within the public sphere of mainstream Atlantic society.
