Ben Kochan
Visiting Assistant Professor of Maritime Studies
Education
Ph.D., History Department, Boston University (BU), expected May 2022
B.S., History Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2006
Cambridge University (Fitzwilliam College), 2003-2004 (Cambridge-MIT Exchange)
St. Petersburg State University, March 2004 (one-week seminar on post-Soviet Russia)
Teaching Experience
Part-Time Faculty, College of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Rhode Island, 2022
Instructor of Record, “New England and the Sea”
Visiting Assistant Professor of Maritime Studies, Sea Education Association, 2021
Instructor of Record, “Oceans and Society,” Science at SEA
Visiting Assistant Professor of Maritime Studies, Sea Education Association, 2018-2019
Instructor of Record, “Marine Environmental History,” Caribbean Reef Expedition
Secondary Instructor, “Ocean Science and Public Policy,” Caribbean Reef Expedition
Instructor of Record, BU Writing Program, 2015-2017
WR100: “Writing Seminar: Oceans Past and Present”
WR150: “Writing and Research Seminar: Oceans Past and Present”
Instructor of Record, BU History Department, 2015
HI214: “History of Piracy”
Teaching Fellow, BU History Department, 2012-2015
HI176: “World History after 1500” (Prof. Betty Anderson)
HI214: “History of Piracy” (Prof. Clifford Backman)
HI289/IR349: “History of International Relations, 1900-1945” (Prof. Erik Goldstein)
