Courses Designed and Taught

Undergraduate Courses Taught

Environmental Studies 600: Community-Engaged Agroforestry (Lecturer, self-designed Capstone course* Spring 2025)
Environmental Studies 112: Social Science Perspectives (Lecturer, Summer 2025; Teaching Assistant, Fall 2022, 2023, 2024)
Geography 309: People, Land, and Food (Teaching Assistant, Spring 2023)
History 465: Global Environmental History (Teaching Assistant, Spring 2024)

*Capstone description: Interdisciplinary investigation with an emphasis on real world challenges. Examine environmental issues and apply, often in a team context, a variety of academic perspectives and methodologies, and cultivate academic and professional abilities such as establishing connections within the larger community, developing strategies for analyzing and addressing problems, developing field skills in ecosystems, and working with others trained in fields different from one's own.

Environmental Studies 600: Community-Engaged Agroforestry

In this course, students will learn from the Madison chapter of the Neighborhood Planting Project (NPP) to develop a range of grassroots, community-based responses to climate change and food insecurity through agroforestry. The NPP acquires tree saplings from the Department of Natural Resources and friends who propagate saplings to distribute free fruit and nut trees to Madison neighbors at our annual Spring “tree distro.” We also work in collaboration with the Madison Parks Board, Madison Permaculture Guild, and others invested in community gardening. The Madison NPP hopes to scale up our projects and collaborations in Spring 2025. This course will invest students in that process of community engagement and project organizing.

Note: Students should be prepared to meet at the UW Lakeshore Nature Preserve several times throughout the course and attend off-campus field trips, both for workshops and for potential Capstone projects. Some field trips will be announced throughout the course as they become available/possible avenues for Capstone projects.

I am a 2025 winner of the Advanced Achievement in Teaching Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School.