Teaching

Summary Teaching Philosophy

Storytelling drives my teaching, beginning as I help students understand the various processes which produced the world they–and all of us–live in. While doing so, my courses emphasize the diverse ways different individuals and communities understand these shared histories. These lessons especially emphasize dissonances between material realities and subjective perceptions with the aim of revealing the varied ideologies helping shape our world. From there I work with students so they can a) understand their place within these stories and b) critically reflect on how they might shift how these stories unfold in the years to come. These projects together provide the basis for my teaching’s overarching goal: providing students the necessary skills and space to themselves become critical scholarly storytellers. Students ultimately leave my classrooms with a deeper understanding of 1) the complex processes which shape our world, both as it is and as it might yet become; 2) the places they occupy within such processes; and 3) the paths they might follow to help the futures they want to see take place.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate Introductary

100-level Intro to Environmental Science & Sustainability (Berea College)

100-level Environment & Society (Colorado College, Syracuse University)

Undergraduate Intermediate

200-level Religions, Environments, and Justice (Berea College, Colorado College)

200-level Environmental Justice (Berea College)

Undergraduate Advanced:

300-level Intro to Geographic Information Systems (Berea College)

300-level Resource Extraction and Resistance (Colorado College)

400-level Sustainability Capstone (Berea College)

I can provide a full teaching portfolio, including evaluations and sample syllabi, upon request