WKU Online Staff

In his role as Assistant Director, Dr. Carroll advises the WKU Online team in the following ways:

• Assesses and analyzes the enrollment, persistence, and graduation rates for current WKU Online programs.
• Analyzes institutional data to assess online program trends to inform decisions for growth.
• Reviews online program course availability as well as changes in WKU degree and certificate program requirements to maintain up-to-date information for online students, WKU faculty and staff, and external reporting agencies.
• Monitors and reports requirements for the university's compliance with federal and state regulations affecting the state authorization of distance learning. 
• Collaborates with WKU administrative unites as needed to facilitate adoption of policies, procedures, and structures that support online programs. 

I am a broadly trained historian with graduate degrees in European and American History and specializations in transnational history, cultural and intellectual history, and the history of gender and sexuality. My dissertation, Return of the Swans: Envisioning and Defining the National and Cosmopolitan Characteristics of ‘British Ballet after Diaghilev (1929-1956),' is one part of a multi-national research project called Cosmopolitanism Transformed: the Impact of State-Funding of the Arts on Ballet from the Fin-de-Siècle to the Cold War.

I am also interested in Public History and the methods of Digital History, which I am using to help visualize the impact that state funding had upon the aesthetics of ballet across decades, international borders, and funding models.

I have over fifteen years of experience in the classroom teaching European, American, and Global history courses as well as offering my own cultural history courses. At my previous institution, Northwestern University, I was heavily involved in efforts to increase retention in Humanities courses by running the discipline-specific History Writing Center. I also taught within the School of Professional Studies and was a facilitator for the "Ways of Knowing" program for Northwestern’s campus in Qatar.

I have experience meeting the needs of a diverse array of students, including first-generation, non-traditional, professional, online, and international students. I am excited to bring my passion for boosting student success to WKU and to already see exciting growth and much potential for WKU Online.

Ph.D. in History, Northwestern University 

M.A. in American History, Middle Tennessee State University 

M.A. in European History, University of Cincinnati 

Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, University of Cincinnati 

B.A. in History, University of Evansville