Teaching & Graduate Mentoring

The Rose Garden at UBC, right above the Sociology building. Image source: http://mapio.net/pic/p-24042569/

The Rose Garden at UBC, right above the Sociology building. Image source: http://mapio.net/pic/p-24042569/

 
 

Graduate Mentoring

I am currently looking for exceptional students who are pursuing graduate school in order to prepare for an academic job. I am particularly interested in working with students whose research interests fall within the broad theme of human-environment relationships and social inequality. Working in a lab setting, students and I will meet regularly to report on complementary projects identifying social responses to environmental issues that either re/produce or disrupt social inequalities (e.g., class, gender, race).

For interested students, please review my mentoring philosophy to determine whether my approach is compatible with your learning style.

Current Teaching

For the 2022-23 academic year, I will teach the following classes:

  • SOCI 599C: Sociology of the Environment. This graduate seminar provides an immersive examination of the field of environmental sociology. The course invites students to develop expertise in understanding relationships between people and our environments as well as to analyze solutions to human-environment conflicts.

  • SOCI 230: Shopping, Sustainability & Society. SOCI 230 uses the everyday things we consume to interrogate our social world. Through hands-on workshops and a semester-long project where students intervene in their own lives to address a social or environmental problem related to consumption, we learn about the cultural, economic, and political arrangements that shape the extent to which consumption helps or harms human and non-human species.

Resources for Teaching

Some materials that other instructors may find to be useful include the following: