Instructing volunteers on artifact documentation in Algonquin Park.
Survey—by canoe—with volunteers in Algonquin.
Teaching
Whether teaching in the field, the classroom, or the lab, I foreground active learning and experiential pedagogy. My teaching interests include political ecology, environmental anthropology and archaeology, agrarian studies, historical and industrial archaeology, and interdisciplinary topics in environmental studies. I design my courses based on the precepts of Universal Design for Learning, and am always looking for ways to make my teaching more accessible.
The following are classes I have taught as Instructor of Record.
Stanford University
2024 "Archaeology of Colonial Latin America" (Fall)*
2024 “Archaeology of Now: Material Cultures of the Contemporary” (Spring)* SYLLABUS
Brown University
2024 “Colonial Ecologies,” Brown University, Environmental Studies (Winter Program)*
2023 “Political Ecology, Colonialism, and Global Crisis”, Brown Pre-College Program (Summer session)*
University of Chicago
2021-22 “Farms as Factories: Industrial Ideals in Modern Agriculture,” Program on the Global Environment, Anthropology (Fall)* SYLLABUS
“Political Ecologies of Colonialism,” Program on the Global Environment, Anthropology (Fall)* SYLLABUS
“Geographic Information Systems and Human Ecologies,” Program on the Global Environment, Anthropology (Winter)*
“Chicago’s Agricultural Hinterland,” Program on the Global Environment, Anthropology (Spring)*
2020 “Farms as Factories: Industrial Ideals in Modern Agriculture,” Program on the Global Environment, Anthropology (Winter)*
“Political Ecologies of Colonialism” Global Studies and Anthropology (Spring)*
2016-19 “Power Identity, Resistance,” College Core (taught four times)
* indicates self-designed courses