I am an Associate Professor of Geography and International Studies in the School of Politics, Public Affairs, and International Studies at the University of Wyoming. I primarily teach courses in human geography, and on political economy and cultural politics in the Americas or in the regional contexts that converge on Turkey. In 2020, I received the “Extraordinary Merit in Teaching” award from the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Wyoming. In 2022-23, I received a “Seibold Professorship” in recognition of my work to enhance our curriculum and offerings at the university, during which time I worked towards expanding our offerings in Middle Eastern Studies, with a focus on Turkey in my case.
I teach the following courses with some regularity:
- Cultural Geography
- Geography of Conflicts
- Graduate Proseminar in International Studies (Research Design)
- Introduction to Global Studies
- Landscapes of the Americas
- Political Geography
- Politics and Society of Turkey
- World Regional Geography
I am currently developing an additional course:
- Cultural Politics in the Contemporary Middle East
Before joining the faculty at University of Wyoming, from 2014-16, I was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Geology and Geography at Ohio Wesleyan University, where I taught:
- Cultural Geography
- Geographies of the Global Economy
- Feminist Geography
- Latin American Geographies
- The World’s Cities
Field trip with ‘Latin American Geographies’ at Ohio Wesleyan University, Fall 2014
In 2015-16, I also collaborated with Drs. John Krygier (Geography) and Jim Peoples (Anthropology) to coordinate learning opportunities (courses, lectures, and travel) as part of a year-long series of events, ‘The Place of Waste.’ More on one of our events here.
Before teaching at Ohio Wesleyan, I taught for more than five years while pursing my Ph.D. in the Department of Geography at Ohio State. I was employed as an instructor or as a teaching assistant for the following undergraduate courses:
- Urban Geography
- Social and Economic Geography
- World Urbanization
- The Making of the Modern World
- World Regional Geography
For Another Critique of the Pyramid 