AuthorEditorReviewerInterdisciplinary academic program developer

project management across portfolio of global activitiesinstructional design in global engineering competenciesgrant writing for global engineering education research and interdisciplinary service learning

•Participated in strategic planning for portfolio of center research projects (academic program)•Provided coordination and support for center's Directors•Coordinated international doctoral program "Environment & Society" and work with coordinator of Environmental Studies Masters Certificate Program with 60+ students from over 30 different countries and dozens of majors•Taught U.S. environmental history and interdisciplinary courses in Environmental Studies and American Studies at the University of Munich•Coordinated Munich-based working groups of the Marie Curie Innovative Training Network“Environmental Humanities for a Concerned Europe,” doctoral training•Organized place-based workshops with faculty in geology, ecology, history, and anthropology that train students to interpret changes in environment and society through the landscape•Served as co-convener of RCC events•Coordinated visits, events, and research exchanges with the U.S. Consul in Munich, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Erasmus, and Fulbright program•Developed collaborations with other international research centers including international leaders such as the Center for History and New Media at George Mason and programs in the United States, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Estonia

•Designed and taught writing-intensive seminars for Honors students including:o “Environmental Writing After the End of Nature,” a 20th and 21st c. American environmental literature course that asks, “ how do we continue to write effectively about environmental problems after ideas of nature have been deconstructed?” o “Reading American Cities,” a literary history of American cities from Whitman and James to Farm City and Milwaukee institutions such as Growing Power, Inc.o “New Media and Contemporary War and Peace,” a contemporary American literature course that examines the changing meaning of conflict in American culture through a range of genres, including traditional poetry and nonfiction as well as new media (blogs, online video)o “American Introspection,” an upper-level seminar on the history of introspective writing in the United States from Crèvecoeur to Toni Morrison and Dave Eggers.• Advised award-winning Honors student writers and successful scholarship applicants