TEACHING
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
Snowy Owl, held by Dr. Vincent Slab, just before being released. Erie, PA. Photo by Jonathan Hall.
BIOGEOGRAPHY
This course explores the a variety of topics around why life happens where it does. We cover ecology, evolution, conservation biology as well as Indigenous ways of understanding non-human life.
Climate and sustainability
This course (formerly named “Natural Resources”) is about understanding the relationships between humanity and the resources we depend on. We achieve this understanding through the lenses of ecology, Indigenous geographies, and Black geographies.
Entrance to Hopper Mountain Wildlife Refuge, Southern California. Photo by Jonathan Hall.
Graduate Courses
Woman and child walking from vegetable market as Black buck antelope crosses the road, Rajasthan, India. Photo by Jonathan Hall.
humanity and Nature
Syllabus | Course Schedule
This graduate seminar centers around a critical examination of the trajectory of Homo sapiens, from our evolution as a species around a quarter million years ago, through the dramatic transformation of our life ways, to the mono culture that is modern civilized humanity. The goal of this course to help students bring more of the histories of humanity to bear on our collective socio-ecological problems and, hopefully, develop solutions that are just and sustainable.