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I teach in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. The Jepson school provides a multi-disciplinary major to undergraduates focused on the social science of leadership and group behavior, history of politics and social movements, and ethics. At the Jepson School, I have taught an introductory course on the social sciences, a theory course on leadership, a course on evolution of religion, and a course on the evolution of human social organization. See here for a syllabus for the latter course.
In general, I draw on multiple disciplines (cultural anthropology, archaeology, primatology, behavioral economics, evolutionary biology, and social and cognitive psychology) to teach students about human decision-making, behavior, and social organization. This freedom to teach across disciplines is in part why I feel at home in the Jepson School. In all my courses, I emphasize theory that bridges dichotomies of nature and nurture, biology and culture, genes and environment. In my view, this theoretical consilience is now driving much of the influential discovery in the social sciences.
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