Teaching

"Resource Governance and the Corporation" (PPGA 591R 001/ FRST 578C 203) is a graduate seminar open to any UBC graduate students. This course examines how the private sector, including corporations, are governed in resource intensive and extractive sectors. It will cover the history of the corporation, its changing role vis a vis the state and society, and different approaches to controlling the extent and distribution of its social and environmental impacts. Coursework will include exploring specific cases emblematic of resource governance issues around transnational land investments, global food systems, mines, and tree plantations. Through these cases, we will compare approaches to governing the corporation, from self-governance by firms and industry organizations, to consumer-driven change, to formal regulatory mechanisms. In all this, we will learn to take a political ecology approach to our analysis, meaning we will place governance and policy questions in their historical, political economy, discursive, and socio-material contexts. 

In the past, I have taught Policy in Context (PPGA 508) and advised a Global Policy Project (PPGA 590) in the UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs where I am jointly appointed. I also taught International Development (DSOC2050/SOC2206, Fall 2021) at Cornell University, and was a Graduate Student Instructor for multiple years for Problems in Political Ecology (ESPM168, Fall 2014 & Spring 2018) at the University of California, Berkeley.