Ph.D. Political Science 2013, University of Washington
B.A. Political Philosophy 1994, Carleton College

• BCORE 104 The Art and Politics of Walking
• BCORE 105 Individuality and Individualism
• BCORE 107 Democracy and Freedom
• BCORE 115 The Art and Politics of Comedy
• BIS 175 American Government
• BIS 282 Globalization
• BIS 284 International Relations
• BIS 302 Policy Analysis
• BIS 338 Comparative Political Institutions
• BIS 356 Environmental Ethics
• BIS 414 Human Rights and Climate Chaos
• BIS 490 Global Justice Activism and NGOs

International relations; globalization; global justice activism; human rights and climate change; environmental political theory; environmental ethics, American government and politics; policy analysis and law; introduction to philosophy. Interdisciplinary courses with themes centered on walking, comedy, democracy and freedom, and individuality/individualism.

Work on environmental topics such as extinction politics, freedom and democracy, conservation and wildness, the Green New Deal, and peace parks have been published in the Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory, Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, MIT Press, and The New Republic. I am currently working on projects covering ecological nostalgia, the global dam removal movement, and a teaching and learning pedagogy piece on conducting a class called the Art and Politics of Walking at UW Bothell.

Music, philosophy, comedy, food and cooking, civic engagement, the protection of voting rights.