Teaching

Fostering interdisciplinary exploration of complex environment-society questions is at the heart of my teaching. I have taught across a wide breadth of topics, and my teaching interests include marine studies, political ecology, environmental justice, environmental history, Anthropocene studies, animal studies, and conservation social science.

Illustrated 3-D flat world map that shows the contours of the world's oceans. Landmasses are in hues of green, brown, and yellow with no political borders designated. — Credit: Tharp-Heezen, “World ocean floor.” Library of Congress.

Teaching Experience

Courses (Instructor of Record)

MAST 201 Humans and the Ocean | Marine Studies Program, College of Liberal Arts, Oregon State University | Fall 2024, Winter 2025
MAST 300 Society, Culture, and the Marine Environment | Marine Studies Program, College of Liberal Arts, Oregon State University | Fall 2024, Winter 2025
MAST 425 Marine Studies Degree Capstone | Marine Studies Program, College of Liberal Arts, Oregon State University | Spring 2025
MAST 444 Writing for Marine Studies | Marine Studies Program, College of Liberal Arts, Oregon State University | Spring 2025 | Original Course Development

Supervising (Graduate Teaching Assistantship)

Political Ecology in the Global South | Third-Year Undergraduate Course | Geography Department, University of Cambridge | Fall 2021, Spring 2022
Society, Environment and Sustainable Development | First-Year Undergraduate Course | Geography Department, University of Cambridge | Winter & Spring 2020, Winter & Spring 2021, Winter 2022
Inequality | Second-Year Undergraduate Course | Geography Department, University of Cambridge | Fall 2021
Geographies of Postcolonialism and Decoloniality | Third-Year Undergraduate Course | Geography Department, University of Cambridge | Spring 2021
Political Appetites: Geographies of Food and Power | Third-Year Undergraduate Course | Geography Department, University of Cambridge | Winter 2021

Contributing & Guest Lectures

“Not Just Moby-Dick & Save the Whales: Cetacean Conservation, Power, & Justice,” in Fisheries & Wildlife 340 Multicultural Perspectives in Natural Resources | Oregon State University | Spring 2025
“AI in the News: Whales, Communication, and Ethics,” in College Seminar: Generative AI and Society | Oregon State University | Fall 2024, Spring 2025
“Harvesting the Oceans,” in Political Appetites: Geographies of Food and Power | Third-Year Undergraduate Course | Geography Department, University of Cambridge | Winter 2021, Winter 2022
“Extinction Narratives,” for M.Phil. in Anthropocene Studies | Geography Department, University of Cambridge | Fall 2020, Fall 2021

Graduate Seminar Leading

“Oceanic Anthropocenes,” for M.Phil. in Anthropocene Studies | Geography Department, University of Cambridge | Winter 2022

Mentoring

Advising for Marine Studies capstones and Honors College theses | Oregon State University | Spring 2025 – present
Individual advising on special topics of undergraduate senior thesis (topics: ethics, embodiment, positionality, climate activism, and disability studies) | Geography Department, University of Cambridge | Fall 2021 – Winter 2022
Mentor for small-group undergraduate thesis “cafes” (topics: conservation, cultural & historical geography, environmental justice, landscape & memory, political ecology) | Geography Department, University of Cambridge | Summer 2020, Summer 2021