TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of California, Berkeley
IB C142L/ANTHRO C103: Human Osteology (Spring 2018)
Graduate student instructor. Prepared and administered weekly practical examinations.
Course description: An intensive study of the human skeleton, reconstruction of individual and population characteristics, emphasizing methodology and analysis of human populations from
IB 35AC: Human Biological Variation (Fall 2018 & Summer 2017)
Graduate student instructor. Led weekly lab and discussion sections. (Fall 2018)
Co-instructor. Co-lecturer and facilitator of lab and discussion sections. (Summer 2017)
Course description: This course addresses modern human biological variation from historical, comparative, evolutionary, biomedical, and cultural perspectives. It is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of comparative biology, evolutionary theory, and genetics.
IB C185L/ANTHRO C100: Human Paleontology (Spring 2017)
Graduate student instructor. Led weekly laboratory sections and assisted with laboratory curriculum development.
Course description: This course examines the hominid fossil record through an historical and interdisciplinary lens spanning geology, archaeology, and evolutionary biology.
IB 140: Human Reproduction (Spring 2015)
Graduate student instructor. Led weekly discussion sections.
Course description: This course focuses on the biological and cultural aspects of human reproduction including conception, embryology, pregnancy, labor & delivery, lactation, infant/child development, puberty, and reproductive aging. This includes the study of factors that diminish and factors that enhance fertility, reproduction, and maternal-child health. We explore evolutionary, ecological, environmental, cultural, ethnobiological, and nutritional determinants of fertility, reproductive rate, infant survival, and population growth.
IB C130/SOC C118: Human Fertility (Fall 2014)
Graduate student instructor. Developed curriculum for the laboratory and discussion sections, and led weekly sections.
Course description: This course explores human reproduction through the lenses of evolutionary biology, population statistics, and culture. Throughout, we organize the course in terms of major transitions and the question of choice. How do evolved biology and inherited culture make some choices more accessible and others less so? What happened to human fertility and to the possibility of making choices about fertility at such moments of change as the emergence of pair bonding in hominids, the advent of agriculture, the industrial revolution, and today with the development of both contraceptive and prospective technologies.