Online Courses
100 Years of Experiments: The History and Philosophy of Animal Behavior Science (Creator of Course/Instructor)
Currently Under Development for Santa Fe Institute’s Complexity Explorer Website
High School / Undergraduate Introductory Course
Fully Online, Free to Anyone
With Puppets!
Teaching
History of Biology: Conflicts and Controversies (Teaching Assistant)
Fall 2020
Undergraduate Course, Fully Online
~50 Students
History of Medicine (Teaching Assistant)
Summer 2020
Undergraduate Course, Fully Online
~180 Students
The Evolution of Cooperation: The Riddle of Altruism
(Co-Instructor of Record)
Fall 2018
Graduate Level Seminar Course, In-Person
~6 Students
Human Anatomy/Physiology
(Lead Instructor of Break-out Lab Component)
2015 Fall
Introductory undergraduate course where students attend the same large lecture component and break into smaller cohorts for the lab component of the course. I lead two lab sections with the help of teaching assistants.
Two Sections of ~25 Students Each
Prison Biology Education Program
(Volunteer Instructor)
2017 Fall / 2018 Spring / 2018 Fall / 2019 Spring
Year long course equivalent to semester-long introductory undergraduate biology course. In-Person with rotating instructors, course designers, and graders.
~ 30 Students
The Embryo Project Writing Seminar (Co-Instructor of Record)
2016 Spring / 2016 Fall
Writing workshop course for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, In-Person.
~15 Students
Along with other leading members of the Embryo Project Team, I was awarded the History of Science Society’s Joseph H. Hazen Education Award for Exemplary Teaching of the History of Science.
Invited Guest Lectures for Courses
“Indigenous Biobanking, Dynamic Consent, and the Unknown Potential of Genomic Data”
Fall 2022
Guest Lecture for Dr. Camellia Koleyni’s Course, “Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities” at Vanderbilt University.
Undergraduate Course
~25 Students
“Modeling Behavior: The Past, Present, and Future of the Instinct vs. Learning Dichotomy”
Spring 2022
Guest Lecture for Dr. Julia Bursten’s Course, “Scientific Modeling” at University of Kentucky.
Graduate Course
~10 Students
“Tradition and Controversy in Honeybee Navigation Research: Studying the People Who Study Bees”
Fall 2021
Guest Lecture for Dr. Clare Rittschoff’s Undergraduate Course, “Bees & People” at University of Kentucky.
~20 Students
“Honeybee Technologies”
Fall 2021
Guest Lecture for Dr. Matthew Defrese’s Course, “Agriculture Biotech” at Bluegrass Community and Technical College.
Undergraduate Course
~25 Students
“How to Make Our Ideas Clear”
Fall 2021
Invited guest Lecture for Dr. Julia Bursten’s Seminar Course, “History of Analytic Philosophy” at University of Kentucky
Undergraduate Course
~5 Students
“What Makes Behavior Meaningful?”
Fall 2018
Guest Lecture for Dr. Matthew Chew’s course “Biology & Society” at Arizona State University.
~50 Students
