I am an interdisciplinary educator with a grounding in anthropology. At Colorado College, I teach courses on energy, extractivism, development, climate justice, anthropological theory, ethnographic methods, and Indigenous environmental movements. In addition, I have designed upper-level seminars such as Energy Worlds: From Fossil Fuels to Renewables, The Cultural Politics of Climate Change, and Race and Indigeneity in Latin America. My classes reflect my pedagogical commitment to interdisciplinarity, non-Western scholarship, and theories from the South.
In my classes I promote attention to ethnographic realities by drawing from a wide array of media objects, including photography, documentary film, and digital media, alongside more conventional ethnographic objects of study. While these objects cannot replace the embodied experience of long-term ethnography, they work to bridge some of the distance that separates students from the contexts and worlds that we encounter in our readings and discussions.
My course descriptions are available upon request.