Objective: Investigating the animality of knowledge, meaning-making, & place-making through studying mapping behaviors like spoor recognition from a comparative cognition/new ethology perspectives. I’m also interested in the role visual wildlife tracking has in conservation, environmental education, and human-animal relations.

Education

MA Claremont Graduate University, Religious Studies - 2013

Thesis: Mary as The Meeting Place: Typologies of Sacred Space and Place in a Syriac Pentecost

BA University of Vermont, Major in Religious Studies, minor in Animal Science - 2010

Additional Research Interests & Influences

Cultural History, Environmental Philosophy, Biosemiotics, Animal & Human Geography, Movement Ecology, Ruminant Ecology, Ethnobiology, Hellenic Studies, Queer & Trans Studies, Comparative Cognition, Sensory and cognitive ecology

Professional Certificates

Track & Sign Specialist - November 2021 - Cybertracker Conservation

Remote EMT - May 2017 - Remote Medical Training

Professional Experience

Queer Nature LLC - Co-founder - 2015-Present

Weaving Earth Center for Relational Education - Adjunct Faculty/Guest Instructor - 2019-2020*

*(In-Person Curricula for Weaving Earth’s Yearlong Immersion—the program at which I teach—has been paused during the pandemic but is expected to resume)

Colorado College - Guest Instructor/Teacher-in-Residence

Select Publications and Presentations

Beyond the Human - Essay co-authored in Atmos Magazine - 2022

Restor(y)ing Place: Tracking and the Necessity of Ecological Intimacy (DK Press) - Essay in Nature is a Human Right - 2022

Multi-Species Animisms through the Lens of Wildlife Tracking - Keynote (co-presenter), North American Rewilding Conference - 2021

Eco-Mysticism for Apocalyptic Times - Essay co-authored in Loam Magazine - 2020

Tracking as a Way of Knowing - Essay in Written River - 2016

The Spiritual Ecology of the Shepherd - Essay in The Wayfarer - 2015

Other Appearances / Mixed Media

Queer Stealthcraft - Virtual Workshop Guggenheim H.O.R.I.Z.O.N. Exhibit Academic Conferences
38th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference (Presenter)
39th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference (Presenter)

Research & Volunteer

Team Leader - Community Wildlife Monitoring Project (Washington) - Winter 2021–Present

I lead a team of volunteers to find and record wildlife tracks along designated transects along the I-90 corridor.

Other Relevant Education (Non-accredited)

Wilderness Awareness School - Yearlong Immersion Program 2013-14

Roots School - Wilderness Survival Immersion Project 2010-11