Email:  septing@lexrich5.org

Phone Number: (803) 476-8739

Education

• Ph.D. History, University of Pennsylvania, 2012

Dissertation: Casualties of the Spirit: The Development of Military Psychiatry and Psychology in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany, 1914-1945

• B.A. History and German Studies, College of Charleston, 2004

Recent Conferences 

• 2027 - American Historical Association

“Creedal or Contested Space?: A Conversation on Partiality, Transparency, and the Teaching of History In Public Institutions”

• 2026 - National Council for the Social Studies

“One Discipline, Two Classrooms: Building Secondary and Higher Ed Alliances”

• 2026 - H-Net International Conference

“Empathy, Narrative, and Post-Literate Students: Speculative History as  Framework for Civil Discourse”

• 2025 - South Carolina Council for Social Studies Education, Greenville, SC

“From Past to Prompt: The Historian’s Role in AI”

• 2025 - H-Net International Teaching Conference

“Teaching with AI: Trials, Tensions, and Lessons from the Classroom”

• 2024 - National Council for History Education, Cleveland, OH

“Playing with the Past: Decoding Games in the Classroom”

Publications

• “Beyond the Frontlines: Strategies for Teaching Women's Suffrage and the Impact of World War I” in Teaching Suffrage (University of Oklahoma Press, forthcoming fall 2027).

• “The Power of Play: Game Pedagogy and Engaged Learning,” Proceedings of the H-Net Teaching Conference. v.1 (2023).

Recent Academic Service, Awards, & Affiliations

• AP European History Scoring Study (2026)

• Invited Reviewer, History of Psychiatry (2025)

• AP European History Early Leader, Exam Reader (2024- present)

• Modern World History Alignment Guide, South Carolina Department of Education, Reviewer (2023)

• National Council for History Education, member

• National Council for History Education, Fritz Fischer Prize (2024)

• District Five Foundation Grant for Tabletop Games in the Classroom (2020)