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.

 
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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.

 
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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.

 
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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.

 
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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.