TEACHING
My teaching is focused on experiential and student-led learning, with the goal of fostering genuine curiosity and affective connections with course material. I use alternative assignments such as site studies and field sketching to help students draw connections between the world they inhabit and the history we study in class. I treat the classroom as a collaborative space where we all work together to develop analytical skills and understand course material.In 2023 and 2024, I designed and taught an urban environmental history seminar called “Nature and the City: Memory, Place, and Environment.” This course was a critical speaking seminar, as part of the Communication within the Curriculum program, which supported my students in critically developing public speaking skills through academic study.
As a graduate student, I have worked as a teaching assistant for courses including an introduction to the history of science, history of technology, environmental studies, and global histories of medicine.
In 2023, I completed a Certificate in College and University Teaching from the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania.
Left: Schuylkill River and railway trestle, Philadelphia. 2023.