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I am inspired by how anthropology can illuminate human similarities and differences across time and space. This key insight animates my teaching. My goal is to encourage and enable my students to be compassionate, inspired, informed, engaged, and creative critical thinkers, community members, and human beings.
Courses I teach include:
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Environmental Justice
Environment, Culture, Sustainability
Economic Anthropology in a Changing World
Law, Power, and Society
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Through Dartmouth’s Energy Justice Clinic (EJC), which I co-founded in 2021 with Dr. Sarah Kelly, I have undertaken collaborative work on energy justice in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. The EJC brings together scholars, students, and community partners to facilitate energy justice-focused education, research, art, and community-directed and place-based energy transitions. Through it, I have led research on community-led electricity procurement in New Hampshire and collaborated on research about hydropower conflicts in Chile between Indigenous Mapuche communities, the Chilean state, and foreign energy corporations.
Image: Through the EJC and with support from a Hopkins Center for the Arts grant, Dartmouth students worked with White River Junction community members to design and paint an energy justice-focused mural conceptualized by the artist Julio Muñoz Uribe (Ragko). The mural is located on a wall of COVER Home Repair, a nonprofit community partner of the EJC located in White River Junction, Vermont.
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I advise graduate students through Dartmouth’s Ecology, Evolution, Environment and Society PhD Program.
