Teaching

I teach students to connect environmental theory to lived landscapes, policy debates, and community-accountable research practice.

My Approach:

  • Connecting theory to lived worlds

  • Centering Indigenous and community knowledge

  • Transparent structure

  • Accessible pedagogy

Students Learn to:

  • Analyze environmental decisions

  • Work across audiences

  • Connect theory to cases

  • Accountable research

Topics I teach:

  • Courses in this area examine how environmental decisions are made, who benefits, and how governance is shaped across local and global contexts.

    • Environmental anthropology

    • Political ecology

    • Environmental justice

    • Global biodiversity, law, and policy

    • Indigenous governance and sovereignty

    • Environmental conservation and Indigenous peoples

  • Focuses on how people interact with and manage landscapes over time.

    • Cultural geography

    • Fire stewardship and cultural burning

    • Indigenous data sovereignty

  • Covers how students learn to do research and communicate their findings.

    • Ethnographic field methods

    • Collaborative and community-based research methods

    • Geospatial methods

    • Public-facing research communication

  • Introduces core concepts and approaches across anthropology.

    • Sociocultural anthropology

    • Linguistic anthropology

    • Archaeology and material culture

Field, Classroom, & Online

I teach across large introductory courses, field-based settings, and online environments, adapting structure and activities to different kinds of learning.

Field-Based Teaching

Field and study abroad teaching are central to my pedagogy. Through long-term collaboration with Mẽbêngôkre-Kayapó partners, I co-direct a field course in which students learn ethnographic and environmental methods while engaging with questions of ethics, consent, accountability, and Indigenous data governance.

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Students Leave My Courses Able To:

CONNECT THEORY to real-world problems

CONDUCT RESEARCH inquiry, observation, analysis

COMMUNICATE across audiences

WORK ETHICALLY across knowledge systems