Classes
ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY
(GEO 103)
This course provides an introduction to environmental geography. It focuses on the social aspects of resource use practices and environmental policy, with special focus on issues of energy use, water resources, and agricultural systems.
GEOGRAPHY OF MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENTS
(GEO 317)
This course examines geoecological and socio-economic processes associated mountain regions and environments. Topics covered include plate tectonics, geomorphology, biogeography, resource use systems, political conflict, socio-economic change, conservation and development.
LATIN AMERICA: DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT
(GEO 321)
This advanced undergraduate course examines processes of colonization, economic development, resource use, and social mobilization in Latin America.
This course examines issues of environmental racism and classism, and the political ecology of environmentally-based social movements in the US and Third World. Special attention is paid to conceptual and legal problems of environmental justice, and struggles over environmental quality.
GEOGRAPHIES OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
(GEO 353)
This undergraduate seminar is taught through the Renée Crown Honors Program as part of my 2018 Meredith Award. Centered on a series of field trips to various sites in Syracuse, the class examines racial segregation and environmental injustice, particularly as they affect Native American and African American communities in and around the city.
Environmental Justice in Syracuse (HNR 360)
FOOD: A CRITICAL GEOGRAPHY
(GEO 415)
This course examines the geographies of agro-food systems, from farm to processing plant to grocery store to dinner plate. It considers contemporary agricultural systems (including industrial, peasant, and organic farming systems), examines the meat and food processing industries, and explores questions of access, hunger and food justice.
RESEARCH DESIGN
(GEO 602)
This graduate seminar focuses on aspects of research design, with a particular focus on proposal writing and research ethics.
THEORIES OF DEVELOPMENT
(GEO 705)
This graduate seminar takes an in-depth look at development theory, and traces the historical debates between various currents of thought. Topics include modernization theory, dependency theory, poststructural anti-development critiques, gender and development, grassroots development, sustainability, and neoliberalism.
SEMINAR IN POLITICAL ECOLOGY
(GEO 755)
This graduate seminar examines the political and economic context of environmental change and conflict. Theoretical readings and case studies highlight the social production and politicization of nature through struggles over landscapes and livelihoods and explore ways in which understandings of nature are bound up with relations of power and constructions of identity.
