Ecology in the Anthropocene

Courses taught

University of Kentucky

• Fall 2025 - Bio 770: Graduate Seminar on Biological Scaling (Syllabus and reading list)

• Spring 2024 - Bio 325: Ecology

• Fall 2023 - Bio 425: Cultural Evolution (Reading: The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter)

• Spring 2022 - Bio 325: Ecology Honors

• Fall 2022 - Bio 770:  Graduate Seminar in Metabolic Ecology (Reading: Sibly et al.  'Metabolic Ecology: A Scaling Approach')

• Spring 2022 - Biology 425: What makes humans unique? (Reading: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind)

UNC-Chapel Hill

• Biology 499: Advanced Topics: Human Evolutionary Ecology (undergraduate interdisciplinary)

Graduate Teaching Assistant at UNM

• Evolution of Human Behavior

• Ethology: Animal Behavior

• Plant & Animal Form & Function

Guest lectures

Highlands Biological Station (NC), Global Biodiversity and Macroecology (UNC), Graduate-level Ecological Data Analysis and Application (UNC), Tropical Biodiversity (FMU Sumaco Biological Station, Ecuador)