Courses
Histories of Extraction and Mining
This graduate seminar explores how societies have interacted with the realm underfoot, a vertical plane of human and nonhuman history.
Narrating the Anthropocene
A seminar, co-taught with Kate Brown, that asks how people came to understand, debate, and narrate the Anthropocene, a geological epoch defined by human-induced climate change.
US Environmental Governance
This undergraduate lecture considers a nexus of U.S. politics, economics, and environmental change, including the global dimensions, from National Parks to the Green New Deal.
Global Commodities, American Dreams
An advanced seminar for undergraduate and graduate students, Global Commodities, American Dreams traces sites of resource extraction to sites of American policymaking and consumption.
Enviro History in a Global Context
An introductory survey in environmental history, exploring in particular the way environment has been a key arena of activity linking the United States and the world.
US and the World
This lecture examines U.S. history in a global context with emphasis on the topics of American exceptionalism and empire, transnationalism and nationalism, and race and gender.