Teaching

University of Victoria, BIG Lab Summer Institute 

  • Lecturer
    •  2024 – 2025
    • Indigenous Internationalisms and Border Crossings
      • Course introduction: Expressions of Indigenous internationalism are practiced in several different ways by First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples across Turtle Island and globally. Encompassing Indigenous trade relations, diplomatic protocols, treaty arrangements, acts of solidarity and other assertions of self-determining authority, Indigenous internationalism is an emerging area of research that exposes tensions between Indigenous nations and states over border policies and highlights Indigenous relationships that transcend state borders. This institute will examine the ways that Indigenous nations are expressing their relationships to lands and waters through complex diplomacies and forms of engagement, as well as their experiences with state border crossings. Drawing on Indigenous peoples’ perspectives across Turtle Island and beyond, each session will include short lectures, discussion, and an examination of case studies.

York University, Geography Department

  • Head Teaching Assistant & Tutorial Instructor
    • 2017 – 2019
    • GEOG 2030 – The End of the Earth As We Know It: Introduction to Global Environmental Change
      • Course introduction: Large-scale transformations of the earth—especially climate change but also air and water pollution, biodiversity loss, deforestation, changes in nutrient cycling, and soil erosion—are among the most difficult problems and challenges of our day. From Hollywood cinema to the nightly news, environmental problems are on the agenda, and the efforts to deal with them continually fall short, resulting in both social and ecological challenges. This course is designed to introduce students to human-environment geography by exploring both historical and contemporary human-induced transformations of the earth’s system. The objectives are to better understand how and why the global environment is changing; how these changes manifest themselves in different places; and the ways in which individuals and societies adapt to, respond to, and mitigate environmental change. Special attention will be given to the politics and power relations embedded in contemporary policy debate. We will investigate the decision to act and the decision not to act on the part of individuals, governments, activist organizations, and corporations. While it is tempting to see global environmental change (GEC) as a uniquely large-scale phenomenon and problem, it is not limited to the global scale. Both the impacts of GEC and responses to it occur across scale and are geographically variable. In order to stress this, the course will examine the local
        manifestations of these global processes. The course will start by reviewing what is meant by ‘global environmental change’ and the key features of climate change science. It will then move on to explore different social science and humanities approaches to analyzing GEC and finish with an investigation into the relevant global policy dimensions with an emphasis on equity.

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