Dr. Joel C. Webb
Education:
Ph.D., Tulane University, 2019
M.A., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009
B.A., University of New Orleans, 2004
Courses:
HIST 150: World History I
HIST 151: World History II
HIST 333: Nineteenth Century Europe
HIST 350: History of Latin America
Bio:
Born and raised in Baton Rouge, Joel Webb earned his B.A. in history from the University of New Orleans in 2004. Upon graduation, he worked for three years teaching English in South Korea, an experience that broadened his global perspective and deepened his interest in world history and culture. After returning to the United States, he completed an M.A. in History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and later earned a Ph.D. in Modern European History at Tulane University in 2019. Before coming to 果冻APP, Dr. Webb taught for Johns Hopkins CTY, at Loyola University New Orleans, Auburn University, and the University of Southern Mississippi. He is currently working on a cultural history of Spain鈥檚 first railway network under the working title 鈥淪pain鈥檚 Iron Monsters: Liberalism, Modernization, and the Escape from Decline in the Nineteenth Century.鈥�
Accomplishments:
鈥淭he Iron Road to Redemption: Railway Development and the Ghost of Spanish Decline in the Nineteenth Century,鈥� European History Quarterly, Vol. 54, Issue 4, October 2024.
鈥淒rawing a Glorious Past, Picturing an Uncertain Future,鈥� European History Quarterly, Vol. 48, Issue 2, April 2017.
Contributing Author and Editor鈥� OpenStax World History, Vol. 1 & 2. Houston: Rice University and Openstax, 2022.
Contributing Editor鈥� OpenStax U.S. History. Houston: Rice University and Openstax, 2015.