My teaching philosophy
My teaching philosophy guides students into making the classroom a shared place of critical thinking and social action. I aim to foster a learning space which values and builds on students’ understandings of how the world came to be to imagine a better world in the present and future.
"We come together to be unlovely and take ourselves apart, in order to mutually construct even more difficult ideas. It’s not supposed to be easy. The labor is what makes it beautiful."
- KYLA WAZANA THOMPKINS, "WE AREN'T HERE TO LEARN WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW"
Courses
At Cal Poly Humboldt, I teach in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Analysis. My classes are often cross-listed with Politics and History.
In Spring 2024, I'm teaching Senior Field Research for geography majors and Political Ecology in Geography and Politics.
In Fall 2024, I will teach Introduction to Human Geography and Making of the Modern Middle East (Geography and History).
In Spring 2025, I will teach California geography.
Previous courses at University of California Davis
WMS 102 "Gender and (Post)Colonialism," Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies Dept., UC Davis - Spring 2022
Lead Teaching Assistant, GSW 50 "Introduction to Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies," Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies Dept., University of California Davis
Other courses supported:
PLS 007v “Just Coffee,” Plant Sciences Dept., UC Davis
SOC 178 “Punishment and Corrections,” Sociology Dept., UC Davis
AMS 30 “Images of America – Maps & Landscapes,” American Studies Dept, UC Davis
AMS 21 “Objects in Everyday Life,” American Studies Dept., UC Davis
HIS 193B “The Middle East in the 20th Century,” History Dept., UC Davis
SOC 25 “Sociology of Popular Culture,” Sociology Dept., UC Davis
In Spring 2024, I'm teaching Senior Field Research for geography majors and Political Ecology in Geography and Politics.
In Fall 2024, I will teach Introduction to Human Geography and Making of the Modern Middle East (Geography and History).
In Spring 2025, I will teach California geography.
Previous courses at University of California Davis
WMS 102 "Gender and (Post)Colonialism," Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies Dept., UC Davis - Spring 2022
Lead Teaching Assistant, GSW 50 "Introduction to Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies," Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies Dept., University of California Davis
Other courses supported:
PLS 007v “Just Coffee,” Plant Sciences Dept., UC Davis
SOC 178 “Punishment and Corrections,” Sociology Dept., UC Davis
AMS 30 “Images of America – Maps & Landscapes,” American Studies Dept, UC Davis
AMS 21 “Objects in Everyday Life,” American Studies Dept., UC Davis
HIS 193B “The Middle East in the 20th Century,” History Dept., UC Davis
SOC 25 “Sociology of Popular Culture,” Sociology Dept., UC Davis
