Teaching
My teaching is grounded in active learning, inclusive pedagogy, and individualized learning, which empowers students to develop confidence in their critical and analytical abilities. I want students to connect concepts to real-world problems and problems to methods, learning to ask good questions, evaluate evidence, and see human-environment systems as shaped by institutions, power, place, and history. At the University of Florida, I have served as instructor of record for courses in Economic Geography, Population Geography, and Social Geography, across classroom, hybrid, and online formats. In 2025-2026, I received the UF Graduate Student Teaching Award.
I design courses that integrate theory with practice through scaffolded methods training and applied projects. Students in my courses work with real datasets, build maps and visualizations, and design original interdisciplinary research projects. My teaching is also informed by my training through the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) Associate Certificate (2025-2026).
Teaching Interests
Human geography (social, economic, political), natural resource governance, environmental justice, environmental policy, community conservation, conservation in Southern Africa, spatial methods for social science (spatial statistics, GIS)
Current Semester
Past Courses
I have taught classroom, hybrid, and fully online courses in previous terms. Find links to past syllabi below.
- GEO 3502: Economic Geography (undergraduate | online). Fall 2023-Summer 2025, Spring 2026. Syllabus
- GEO 2410: Social Geography (undergraduate | online). Summer 2023. Syllabus
- GEO 3430: Population Geography (undergraduate | classroom). Fall 2022. Syllabus
- GEO 3430: Population Geography (undergraduate | online). Spring 2022. Syllabus
- GEO 3430: Population Geography (undergraduate | hybrid). Fall 2021. Syllabus
Courses Prepared to Teach
Environmental studies
- Introduction to Environmental Studies
- Environmental Justice
- Political Ecology
- Parks and People
- Global Environmental Governance
Methods
- GIS for Environmental and Social Analysis
- Spatial Data Analysis
- Mixed-Methods in Human-Environment Research
- Survey and Interview Methods
- Community-Based Research Methods
- Geocomputation using R