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Darkness in El Dorado Controversy - Introduction

This portion of my website is dedicated to providing a place to find information about Patrick Tierney’s Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon...

Ethnographic Field School

Since 2014, I have been leading an ethnographic field school that conducts community-based research coupled with ethnographic methods training in Belize...

Native Nations Book

An impressive examination pertaining to the survival strategies employed by Indigenous peoples, the world over, in order to discern how Native peoples have maintained their traditional culture, language, sacred lands, and identity...

Research - Belize

I have been conducting applied ethnographic research northern Belize since 2012 and plan to return every summer with the Ethnographic Field School in Belize...

Research - Kentucky

I have been conducting ethnographic research regionally in Kentucky with my undergraduate students as part of the Center for Applied Anthropology at Northern Kentucky University...

Research - Madagascar

My research in Madagascar was a collaborative effort (partnered with the Malagasy government and both national and international NGOs) to evaluate agricultural change...

Research - Other

In addition to applied ethnographic research in Belize, Kentucky, and Madagascar, I am involved in other projects with colleagues, students, and individually–including...

Advising

My advising philosophy is grounded in the pedagogical approach of active teaching and learning, because, in my experience, students learn more by example and practice...

Courses

The following courses are in my regular teaching rotation at Northern Kentucky University (NKU). For courses I have previously taught at NKU and other institutions...

Teaching Philosophy

In all of my courses, I weave active-experiential learning with traditional forms of teaching (discussions, films, lectures, readings, tests, and writing)....

Recommendations

My students often ask me to write letters of recommendation for their applications for financial aid, scholarships, study abroad programs, and graduate school...

Contact Information

Northern Kentucky University, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Philosophy, Landrum Academic Center...