Teaching

Instructor of Record

Thinking About the Environment, University of Pittsburgh Spring 2027

Develops the analytical tools to reason clearly about pressing environmental issues (e.g., climate change, nuclear power, and chemical pesticides) and encourages students to find the best available evidence and judge what conclusions, and what actions, it warrants.

Science in Global Perspective, University of Pittsburgh Fall 2026

An examination of science as a global, cross-cultural enterprise: how scientific knowledge travels across societies and is shaped by different cultural, political, and historical contexts.

Teaching Assistant

Mind and Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Fall 2024; Spring 2025

Explores fundamental philosophical questions about the nature of mental health and mental illness, and about the branches of medicine and psychiatry that aim to promote mental health and treat mental illness.

Science Towards the Future, University of Sydney Spring 2020; Summer 2021; Fall 2022

Considers how science tackles the complex, interdisciplinary problems of the twenty-first century: from climate change to disease outbreaks, and how to create and communicate scientific evidence within its ethical, social, and political contexts.

Science, Ethics, and Society, University of Sydney Spring 2020

Introduces the ethical dimensions of scientific research, using contemporary and historical case studies to analyse the social and ethical issues raised by research involving humans and animals, and the codes of conduct that govern it.