Teaching

Courses I teach or have taught

My courses reflect my interests in the nature-society tradition of geography, international development, human rights, and Africa.  Survey courses and seminars with links to syllabi are courses I am teaching or taught recently.

Below you will find the course/seminar name and links to some syllabi.

Survey Courses

Global Physical Environments
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
The World's Regions *#
The Global Experience

Seminars

Africa’s People and Environments *#
AIDS, Genocide, and Modern Day Slavery
Analyzing Your International Experience
Development & Environment: Latin America, Africa, & Asia *
Gender and the Environment in South America
Honors: Imperialism and Cinema
International Studies Senior Seminar
Periclean Scholars (Sophomore Year)
Periclean Scholars (junior year)
Periclean Scholars (Senior Year)

Study Abroad

China
Ghana
UK (London)

Advising

Elon 101

*  = Course also taught at Mount Holyoke College as Visiting Assistant Professor, 1997-98
# = Course also taught as a Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1995 or 1997

Note: I was also a Secondary School Teacher through Harvard University’s Institute for International Development World Teach Program, 1987-88 
I taught geography, mathematics and biology to 9th, 10th and 11th grade students in Kenya.