Teaching Guide for On the Backs of Tortoises

Undergraduate 

Thinking through History with Animals

• History & Environmental Studies 369  

• Fall 2017 Syllabus

Latin American Environmental History

• History & Environmental Studies 600

• Fall 2018 Syllabus

Global Environmental History: How do we live in the Anthropocene? 

• History & Environmental Studies 465

• Spring 2019 Syllabus

• Students in this class created the Anthropocene in Objects website, a collection object-based essays that explain what is at stake in the diagnosis of a new human-centered geological epoch.

Graduate Seminars

CHE Methods Seminar

• Environmental Studies 922

  • Spring 2020 Syllabus TK

The Politics of Land (co-taught with Gregg Mitman)

• History 705, Environmental Studies 900, Geography 900

  • Fall 2019 Syllabus TK

Political Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Histories of Power (& Grant Writing)

• History 705 & Environmental Studies 900

  • Fall 2018 Syllabus 

Space, Nature, History

• History 704 & Environmental Studies 900

  • Fall 2015 Syllabus

  • Students in this class created original book reviews, sample syllabi, and lesson plans on  Teaching the Globe.  Hennessy’s essay, in Edge Effects “Global Visions: Rethinking the Globe and How We Teach It.” 

Graduate Advisees

Alicia Barceinas Cruz

• Joint PhD in Geography and Environment and Resources

• Co-advised with Mike Bell

Samantha Newton

• History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

• Co-advised with Gregg Mitman

 Juan Camilo Franco

• History, Latin America