My teaching includes World History, Roots of Contemporary Issues, Medicine, Science & Technology in World History, Middle Eastern & Islamic history, Western Civilization, History of Christian-Muslim/Western-Islamic Relations, Religious-Cultural Encounter along the Silk Road, various independent (499) studies on world religious and Western-Islamic history, undergraduate and graduate-doctoral seminars at Kazakh Nat'l University on Central Asian religious history & identity, and more. I have served as co-instructor and coordinator for the Seminar in Asian Studies at WSU as well as 'foreign advisor' for a number of Kazakh doctoral students doing religious-cultural history & identity in Kazakhstan and Central Asia, hosting them as international visiting scholars at Washington State University. I have received two 'Excellence in Teaching' awards, a Learning Communities Excellence Award, a Critical Literacies Achievement and Success Program (CLASP) Faculty Award, and an Award for Promoting Tolerance, Diversity & Inclusiveness. I have also given invited lectures at Yale, Princeton, Georgetown, UCLA and University of Washington as well as universities, Peace Corps, historical-cultural centers and other international venues in Kazakhstan, Japan and India.