I teach courses addressing environmental and Indigenous history, the modern U.S., race and ethnicity, empire and colonialism, and the U.S. West in the History department at the University of Idaho.
Curiosity.
I am am driven by curiosity, working across difference, and historical understanding. My courses seek to cultivate spaces that ground relationships in deep listening and allow curiosity to supersede certainty.
In some way, shape, or form, my teaching and learning circles around these questions:
What possibilities emerge when we practice, allow, and make room for different ways of knowing?
How does the individual meet the collective?
How does the particular relate with the universal?
How do human and non-human beings shape one another, and what might we learn from these relationships?
How can working with scale allow us to let more in, work across difference, and hold complexity?
