WKU Online Staff

In his role as Assistant Director, Dr. Carroll advises WKU’s Online Program Services on enrollment issues and trends, coordinates with Cohort Programs on student success initiatives, and ensures programming complies with state and federal authorization requirements and licensure needs.

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

 Jay has over fifteen years of experience in the classroom teaching European, American, and Global history courses as well as offering his own cultural history courses. At his previous institution, Northwestern University, Jay was heavily involved in efforts to increase retention in Humanities courses by running the discipline-specific History Writing Center. He also taught within the School of Professional Studies and was a facilitator for the "Ways of Knowing" program for Northwestern’s campus in Qatar. As such, he has experience meeting the needs of a diverse array of students, including first-generation, non-traditional, professional, online, and international students. He is excited to bring his passion for boosting student success to WKU’s online programs.

Ph.D. in History, Northwestern University (2023)

M.A. in American History, Middle Tennessee State University (2012)

M.A. in European History, University of Cincinnati (2010)

Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, University of Cincinnati (2010)

B.A. in History, University of Evansville (2008)