John Bardunias

Bio

Professor Bardunias has a BA in Creative Writing and Literature from Saint Leo University, a BA in History from USF, and an MA in History from FIU. His MA specialized in European History with a focus on 16th and 17th century Poland-Lithuania and the Holy Roman Empire. He also spent a summer studying in the Jagiellonian University as part of the Kosciuszko Program. 

Professor Bardunias has presented in  New College, USF, and Saint Thomas University and has spent more than a combined 20 years as an Adjunct professor at FIU and MDC. He has spent almost as long as a Dual-Enrollment Instructor at Miami Southridge Sr. High School, Ben Gamla, and now Boyd Anderson High School.  

Since 2006 he has focused more of his time on US History at the college and high school levels. Professor Bardunias has worked with the use of music and images to connect students to the ideas of a variety of groups, and popular culture in different periods of American History. He has focused on examining US History using different genres of music from the Jazz and Blues of the 1920s to the Heavy Metal and Hip-Hop of the 1970s-2000s. 

Professor Bardunias does his best to bring the university experience to dual-enrollment students at the schools he teaches at. With a mix of music, images, writing assignments, collaborative assignments and technology he does his best to balance the rigor and focus needed for college with the understanding and support of a high school program. He balances the desire to prepare students for upper-level education with the scaffolding of secondary education while also educating students on the history of the US and the Enlightenment roots of the US government. He has found an increase love for the Enlightenment Experiment that is the US.