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