“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the
academy… Urging all of us to open our minds and hearts so that we can
know beyond the boundaries of what is acceptable, so that we can think
and rethink, so that we can create new visions…” (bell hooks, 1994)
Courses Taught
University of Utah
ENV2100: Environment + Society
GEOG3630: Political Ecology of Southeast Asia
ENV3430: Food and the Environment
EHUM 6102: Field Methods in Environmental Humanities
GEOG6960 Qualitative Methods and Research Design for Graduate Students
GEOG6950: Political Ecology of the American West (Directed Reading)
GEOG7951: Global China and Urban Transformations (Directed Reading)
University of British Columbia
PPGA591: Ethnographies of Global China [graduate level]
PPGA562: Resource Governance, Environment, and Human Security [graduate level]
PPGA555: Asia Policy Practice [graduate level]
University of Colorado Boulder
GEOG3682: International Development
GEOG3822: Geography of China
GEOG3742: Place, Power, Culture
GEOG3692: Global Public Health
GEOG3422: Political Ecology [TA]
University of California, Berkeley
GEOG130: Food and the Environment [GSI]
GPP115: Global Poverty: Hopes and Challenges [GSI]
GEOG10: Worldings: Regions, Peoples, and States [GSI]
Dalian University of Technology, China
Western Civilization, English Literature, Writing, Phonetics & Conversational English,
University of California, Los Angeles
English as a Second Language