Teaching

Ongoing teaching (2026/2027)

I am currently an Assistant Professor in the School for Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Department of Forest Resources Management at the University of British Columbia.

I teach a course entitled "Land, Extraction, and the Corporation" (FRST_V518/PPGA 591R 001), a graduate seminar examining how the private sector, including corporations, are governed in resource intensive, land extensive, and extractive sectors. It covers 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 includes exploring specific cases emblematic of resource governance issues around transnational land investments, global food systems, mines, and tree plantations and a final research paper analysing one key sustainability intervention targeting corporate behavior.

I also co-teach the Global Perspectives Capstone in the Faculty of Forestry, and will be co-teaching an Interdisciplinary Conservation Science course for the IBioS Collaborative Conservation Leadership program. 

Past courses

I have also teach Policy in Context (PPGA 508) in varying years and advise Global Policy Projects (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.