Professor Ciancia is unquestionably one of the best Professors I've ever had at UW. Not only is she a genius, but I've never had a professor care more about me and my fellow students before. She gave us incredibly detailed feedback on all of our papers and is so fun to talk to. If you want to love history, take her class. She's a gem.

She is one of my favorite professors. Lectures are always interesting, she is very kind and encourages participation. Do the readings, show her in papers that you understand and have been paying attention and you'll do well. You can tell she knows her history, assignments are about the big picture and focusing on why things happened, not just dates

I've had Professor Ciancia twice now, for History 270 and for History 201, she is an excellent professor. Her lectures are well prepared and interesting. She does a fantastic job of engaging with the class and encouraging participation in her lectures. The readings she selected were also brilliant.

She is so cute and precious. She's kind of like your grandmother but younger - that type of personality. She's very soft spoken and gentle, and her material is interesting. You know she's really into because she had so much knowledge about it. She did not give a final exam, so she's an angel. Did you know she graduated from Oxford?

We had a grader for this class and let me tell you, that grader hated everything about my writing style and hated everything I wrote. Normally people say I'm a good writer, but no. But Ciancia was so nice about working with me on my outlines so that I could get a good grade #bless oh and it's a history class, so of course there's a lot of reading

Very kind professor. Lectors are good and she speaks clearly if a bit softly. She seems to genuinely care about the content and your success as a student. None of the work is too stressful. Readings aren't great but lectures cover interesting material. She involves the class during lecture, which I think is effective for smaller classes.

Accessible, clear, and values everybody's input. Some readings fun to read, others way too long (learn to skimp). Weekly posts on Learn@UW mandatory. Pre-20th century Poland mostly glanced over. Some eye-opening parts, but frankly not a very challenging class. Breezed through most of it. Feel like there are better European history classes at UW.