I am a political geographer and political ecologist teaching in Boston College’s Environmental Studies Program, where I began as an Associate Professor of the Practice in Fall 2024. My scholarship and teaching broadly focus on spatial politics of the environment, environmental media and storytelling, and exploring sustainability through both local and transnational networks.

My scholarship also extends in several related directions through research, methodology, and teaching, drawing together cultural geographies, animal geographies, engaged pedagogy, and digital public humanities. This work has previously included: teaching at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA; five years professional experience in award-winning documentary film production for the National Geographic Society; helping initiate the Public Political Ecology Lab (PPEL) at the University of Arizona; editing you are here: the journal of creative geography; and a year-long Public Humanities Fellowship through the New York Council for the Humanities (now Humanities New York) developing a future project collecting stories, media, and histories of resources in the Adirondack Park. I currently serve as the Technical Editor for the American Geographical Society’s digital publication FOCUS on Geography.

I live in Boston, MA, with my wife, our two young children, and a very good dog.