I develop and teach timely, applicable, experiential courses on the politics of the environment and social equity, including, Soc / Envs 187: Environment and Society; Soc / Envs 253: Race, Class, and Environmental Justice; Soc 4010: Recreation and Resistance; Soc 264: Environmental Movements; and Soc 3113: Green Cafe. I help students engage with leading interdisciplinary frameworks to situate environmental conditions via notions of colonial empire, anthropocentrism, and a frank awareness of contemporary dominant cultural logics that we have co-inherited. From deeper awareness, I facilitate greater action, informed by students' unique ethic of caring and personal accountability. As such, we together enact community-based learning and applied social science throughout all my courses.
Outside of the classroom, I am a committed advisor to students on a variety of academic and professional endeavors. I seek out and engage students in project and research mentorship, including at my institution and as a graduate student mentor with the American Sociological Association's Environmental Sociology Section. I also partner with student groups to increase community awareness and learning, including through events such as a recent pipeline teach-in and public forum on the racialization of food, and as a faculty advisor to St. Lawrence University's Seed to Table group.
In my professional service, I strive to center social justice foci, both in the development of the field of sociology and more broadly in academic programming. I am on St. Lawrence University's Sustainability Program Advisory Council and have facilitated community diversity, equity, and inclusion dialogues via the faculty group C.A.R.E. (Committed to Action for Racial Equity). Previously, I was Chair of the Teaching and Outreach Committee for the American Sociological Association's Environmental Sociology Section (2017 - 2019), where I initiated advancements in the naming and implementation of professional awards as well as sub-discipline legitimization of subaltern perspectives.
I am an occasional reviewer for Science as Culture, Social Problems, Sociological Inquiry, Environmental Justice, Agriculture and Human Values, Health Education and Behavior, and other scholarly journals along with various grant-funding agencies, including the National Science Foundation.
Outside of the classroom, I am a committed advisor to students on a variety of academic and professional endeavors. I seek out and engage students in project and research mentorship, including at my institution and as a graduate student mentor with the American Sociological Association's Environmental Sociology Section. I also partner with student groups to increase community awareness and learning, including through events such as a recent pipeline teach-in and public forum on the racialization of food, and as a faculty advisor to St. Lawrence University's Seed to Table group.
In my professional service, I strive to center social justice foci, both in the development of the field of sociology and more broadly in academic programming. I am on St. Lawrence University's Sustainability Program Advisory Council and have facilitated community diversity, equity, and inclusion dialogues via the faculty group C.A.R.E. (Committed to Action for Racial Equity). Previously, I was Chair of the Teaching and Outreach Committee for the American Sociological Association's Environmental Sociology Section (2017 - 2019), where I initiated advancements in the naming and implementation of professional awards as well as sub-discipline legitimization of subaltern perspectives.
I am an occasional reviewer for Science as Culture, Social Problems, Sociological Inquiry, Environmental Justice, Agriculture and Human Values, Health Education and Behavior, and other scholarly journals along with various grant-funding agencies, including the National Science Foundation.
