Rate My Professor Christianna Hurford

Christianna Hurford is a faculty member in the Humanities Department at Columbus State Community College, where she has provided 15 years of service as of 2025. She teaches European History, American History, African-American History, and World Civilizations. Hurford holds a B.A. in History from The State University of New York at New Paltz, an M.A. in Medieval History from The Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. in Atlantic World History from The Ohio State University.

Hurford has actively contributed to open educational resources for history instruction. She co-edited The American Yawp, Volume 1 (CSCC Version), a derivative open-access textbook published by Columbus State Community College in 2019, in collaboration with Dea Boster and Jennifer Nardone. This edition supports courses such as HIST 1151 American History to 1877. She also authored primary source reading modules for HIST 1151, including Primary Source Readings 4: An Expansive Nation, which incorporates annotated historical documents like the correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Eli Whitney on the cotton gin invention (1793), Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress on Indian Removal (1830), his Proclamation Regarding Nullification (1832), the Rhode Islanders' Protest on Property Restrictions for Voting (1834), and Harriet H. Robinson's Early Factory Labor in New England (1836/1883). In 2025, she co-presented the lightning talk Connecting Students to World History through OERs at the OpenCon Ohio virtual conference with Mia Scarnecchia and Jennifer Nardone. Additionally, in 2019, Hurford partnered with Ryan D. Schultz to develop video modules on Eastern medicine history: Religion and Medicine in East Asian Traditions: China, Japan, Korea and Eastern and Western Medicine Meet: Conflicts of Science, Health, and Tradition in Modern China and Japan, through a collaboration with the East Asian Studies Center at The Ohio State University. She completed Columbus State Community College's Diversity Training Certificate Program in 2021.