Teaching

I teach global and European environmental history courses at Sciences Po Paris, in both English and French. My teaching interests also include environmental and historical geography, disaster studies, environmental critical theory, and water history. I have taught at Louisiana State University, the Institute of Social Ecology, and I have been a guest lecturer at LMU Munich, Ohio Wesleyan University, Université de Montréal, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a guest professor at the University of Bologna in 2018 and at the University of Turin in 2022.

Courses and seminars I currently teach:

  • The Work of Rivers: A History of the Global Water Crisis (course)
  • Introduction to Environmental History (seminar)
  • Societies and Transitions (course)

Courses and seminars I have designed and taught in the past:

  • Urban Transitions in Historical Perspective (course)
  • Introduction to Historical GIS (seminar)
  • The Nature of Disaster: A Global Environmental History (course)
  • Earth 2.0: The Environmental History of the Modern World (undergraduate, 2016-2019)
  • Anthropocene: Another Global History? (University of Bologna, graduate, 2018)
  • Introduction to Urban History (2016-2018)
  • Environmental History of Water: Questions, Methods, and Sources (2017)
  • Digital Methods in Socioecological Research (2015)
  • Radical Geography (2015)
  • Geography and Environmental History  (2014)