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I am seeking a visitor position in the California State University system. Currently I teach botany, ecological restoration, environmental history, and the cultural history of plants at The Evergreen State College. At this public liberal arts and sciences alternative college, I have co-taught with twenty-four different colleagues over twenty-nine years, including historians, political economists, and artists. I also mentor undergraduate and graduate-level researchers and serve as the Director of the Biodiversity Center.
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SAMPLE PROGRAMS TAUGHT AT EVERGREEN
Environmental History, Fall 2021 and Spring 2026 (online). Students learned to use case studies of cash crops and specific regions to explore the complex and shifting relationship between the environment and various peoples living on the lands currently known as the United States. Students also considered contemporary issues in a historical context, e.g. Indigenous efforts to address the impacts of white settlement on food sovereignty and ecosystem health. The program served as an elective in the Master in Environmental Studies curriculum. Taught solo.
Global Studies: Plants and Empire, Fall 2020 (online) and Fall 2025. Coordinated studies of economic botany, feminist economics, and cultural history of plants in the context of global capitalism. Designed for sophomores to seniors as a foundational program with upper division options. Taught with political economist Savvina Chowdhury and solo.
Intersectional Ecofeminism, Fall 2023 (online undergraduate course and in-person graduate course). A program explores environmental problems from an ecological and feminist perspective. Taught solo.
Restoring Landscapes: Picturing Plants, Spring 2020 (online) and Spring 2022, 2024 and 2025 (hybrid). An upper division program focused on field plant taxonomy, botanical illustration, and restoration ecology. We examined local prairie-oak mosaics and wetlands as case studies which involved considering how restoration of cultural landscapes can be informed by traditional ecological knowledge. Taught solo.
Winter Twig ID, Winter 2024 and 2025. An undergraduate-level course focused on learning to sight recognize thirty common native Pacific Northwest trees and shrubs in dormancy. Students also learn to keep a nature journal and key using twig morphological features. Taught solo.
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. Ecology, University of California, Davis, December 1996. Dissertation: Wild Restoration: Building Multicultural Partnership in the Sinkyone Wilderness.
M.S. Botany, University of California, Davis, March 1989.
B.A. Botany, University of California, Berkeley, honors student, June 1981.
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CONTINUING EDUCATION
Undergraduate Network for Increasing Diversity of Ecologists (UNIDE) Workshop Completion Certificate, Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Ecology and Environmental Science: Teaching to engage diverse learners everywhere they are, April 2025. Online.
Plant Humanities Virtual Faculty Residency, June 2023. Dumbarton Oaks. Online.
Online Teaching Certificate (including an Online Lab Mastery Series), July 2022. Online Learning Consortium.