I teach courses on the politics of environment, food, and justice, 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 work from a logic my undergraduate mentor, Sociologist Julian Go affirms as, "pessimist of the mind, optimist of the heart" and employ a critical approach throughout my pedagogy. I help students engage with hegemonic critiques articulated in leading sociological and 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 encourage greater action, informed by students' unique ethic of caring and personal accountability. As such, we together engage community-based learning and applied sociology in some form throughout all my courses.
Outside of the classroom, I enjoy advising students on a variety of academic and professional endeavors. I am currently advising several undergraduate students at St. Lawrence University, and I serve as a graduate student mentor through a program of the American Sociological Association's Environmental Sociology Section. I enjoy collaborating with student groups to increase community awareness and learning, including through events such as a recent Indigenous / pipeline teach-in and public forum on the racialization of food.
In service to the issues where I am most intimately involved academically, I support social justice foci in the professional development of the fields of sociology, environment, and health. At my institution, for example, I am on St. Lawrence University's Sustainability Program Advisory Council and have facilitated community DEI dialogues via the faculty group C.A.R.E. (Committed to Action for Racial Equity). Previously, I was Chair of the Teaching and Practice Committee for the American Sociological Association's Environmental Sociology Section (2017 - 2019). In this position, I contributed to advancements in shared discourse around the naming and implementation of professional awards as well as sub-discipline organization and the legitimization of subaltern perspectives within environmental sociology.
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 enjoy advising students on a variety of academic and professional endeavors. I am currently advising several undergraduate students at St. Lawrence University, and I serve as a graduate student mentor through a program of the American Sociological Association's Environmental Sociology Section. I enjoy collaborating with student groups to increase community awareness and learning, including through events such as a recent Indigenous / pipeline teach-in and public forum on the racialization of food.
In service to the issues where I am most intimately involved academically, I support social justice foci in the professional development of the fields of sociology, environment, and health. At my institution, for example, I am on St. Lawrence University's Sustainability Program Advisory Council and have facilitated community DEI dialogues via the faculty group C.A.R.E. (Committed to Action for Racial Equity). Previously, I was Chair of the Teaching and Practice Committee for the American Sociological Association's Environmental Sociology Section (2017 - 2019). In this position, I contributed to advancements in shared discourse around the naming and implementation of professional awards as well as sub-discipline organization and the legitimization of subaltern perspectives within environmental sociology.
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.
