Teaching Experience

At UNL, my teaching interests in the material & visual culture of the past include themes of global trade and exchange, environmental literacy, religious conversion and conflict, and premodern race and gender with an emphasis on the everyday lives of both women and men in the premodern world. As a visiting assistant professor at St. Lawrence University, I taught introductory and specialized courses on the medieval and early modern worlds, environmental history, European studies from Plato to NATO, and seminars on specialized topics such as the global history of water and society, the Black Death, and the Vikings, all using interdisciplinary, visual, and material evidence.

Fall 2021 HIST213/ENVS 215 Global Environmental History students learning about the history of the Grasse River on the campus of St Lawrence University

Prof. Twomey’s students in the History core survey class Modern History II: Race & Religion in the Atlantic World visit an exhibition the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College in Fall 2018

At Boston College I taught classes in both halves of the university core survey courses: on medieval and early modern Europe focusing on the economic, religious, and cultural exchange of objects between Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, and the modern history of the Atlantic World focusing on race and religion. While completing my Ph.D. at Boston College, I was a teaching assistant for introductory courses in European and American history and have also taught specialized digital skills in photogrammetry in an advanced undergraduate course on the material history of Boston. I also have years of experience in individualized undergraduate tutoring and writing instruction, museum & archives, secondary education, and public history as a former seasonal national park ranger and historical tour guide.

assistant professor in medieval European history, the university of Nebraska-Lincoln

2023–pres

History of the Middle Ages

Vikings

Medieval Culture

Visiting Assistant Professor of European History, St. Lawrence University

2018–2023

Prof. Twomey (left) and her Summer 2021 students from HIST 4018 Vikings at St Lawrence University reenacting a viking funeral that they researched, designed, and performed with replica grave goods. Photo by Tara Freeman.

Introduction to European Studies

Global Environmental History

Medieval Europe

Early Modern Europe: Renaissance and Reformation

The Black Death

Vikings: Raiders, Traders, and Enslavers

Romans and Barbarians

Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston College

2017–18

Conversion and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern World: Modern History I

Race and Religion in the Atlantic World: Modern History II

Lab Instructor in Digital Humanities, Boston College

Spring 2017

History Down the Toilet: Reconstructing the Lived Experience of Boston’s North End c. 1670 – c. 1890

Teaching Assistant, Boston College

2011–16

Atlantic Worlds I: Development of a Global Economy 1348–1789

Atlantic Worlds II: Race, Religion, & the Struggle for Democracy 1789–2016

Modern History I: Globalization and Material Culture

Making of the Modern World II: Connections and Comparisons

Europe in the World I: Medieval & Early Modern Worlds 1100–1750

Modern History II: Europe and the World

Teaching assistant, Phillips Academy summer session, Andover, MA

2011

World History

Economics

Historical Tour Development & Guide, Boston College Office of International Programs

2014–17

The Coming of the American Revolution; Slavery & Civil War on Beacon Hill; Victorian Art & Architecture of Back Bay (Boston, MA)

2014

Propaganda & Politics of Late Roman Ravenna (Ravenna, Italy)

private Tutoring

2013–14

Active Minds Tutoring, Newton, MA, Tutor in History and English Literature

2011–14

Boston College Learning Resources for Student Athletes, Tutor in History