Courses taught, spanning human biology and evolution
HUMAN BIOLOGICAL VARIATION
Lead instructor. (Summer 2019)
Graduate student instructor. Led weekly lab and discussion sections. (Fall 2018, Fall 2019)
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.
HUMAN OSTEOLOGY
Graduate student instructor. Prepared and administered weekly practical examinations. Provided one-on-one instruction and feedback. (Spring 2018)
Course description: An intensive study of the human skeleton, including reconstruction of individual and population characteristics. Emphasis on methodology and analysis of human populations from archaeological and paleontological contexts, taphonomy, and paleopathology.
HUMAN PALEONTOLOGY
Graduate student instructor. Led weekly laboratory sections and developed laboratory curriculum. (Spring 2017)
Course description: This course examines the hominid fossil record through an historical and interdisciplinary lens spanning the fields of geology, archaeology, and evolutionary biology.
HUMAN FerTILITY
Graduate student instructor. Developed curriculum for the laboratory and discussion sections, and led weekly sections. (Fall 2014)
Course description: This course explores human reproduction through the lenses of evolutionary biology, population statistics, and culture. We examine 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.
HUMAN REPRODUCTION
Graduate student instructor. Led weekly discussion sections. Created weekly study aids. (Spring 2015)
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.