Get to Know...
Name: - Nicholas Syrett
- Title:
- Assistant Professor of History
- College:
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Program:
- History
- Years
- Teaching: 4 (3 at UNC)
- Degrees:
- A.B. in Women’s and Gender Studies at Columbia University
- M.A. and Ph.D from the Program in American Culture at University of Michigan.
- Areas of expertise/Research interests:
- The history of women, gender, and sexuality in the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- You might not know that I …
- am Canadian.
- My welcome-to-teaching moment that I’ll never forget was …
- realizing that I had to explain to students that an academic paper had to have an argument.
- I chose UNC because …
- I like the emphasis upon undergraduate education and the ability to get to know my students.
- Confucius would say my teaching philosophy is …
- teaching is equal parts entertainment and education.
- If I’m not teaching a class, or in my office, you can find me on campus at …
- Holmes Dining Hall for lunch; all-you-can-eat is very tempting.
- I cannot live without …
- carbonated beverages and salt.
- If I hadn’t become a teacher, I would be a …
- psychiatrist.
- Yearbook quote (advice you like to give to students or best advice you’ve received)
- “Be sure that no matter what you study you find it interesting; there’s no other good reason to do it.”
- Links
- University spotlight
- Faculty Web page
- Professional activity
