I teach a range of topics relating to our species and our closest kin, this includes courses in Human Gross Anatomy, Biological Anthropology, Forensic Anthropology, Human Evolutionary Anatomy, Primate Adaptation & Evolution, Primate Behavioral Ecology, and museum and field-based field schools in primate paleontology. 

A common aim of the classes I teach is to inspire curiosity about the workings of the natural world, but each course is tailored to the specific aims of the audience. I've worked in settings that are rich with resources and also in those where institutional support is limited. This has cultivated in me a passion for innovative techniques in the classroom and a sense for using local resources that can enhance the prescribed lessons with direct involvement in the subject, e.g., behavioral data collection from zoo animals, still-life studies of primate skeletons, photogrammetry to measure limbs, and laser-scanning fossils for 3D digital visualization. I am very fortunate to have excellent support and an abundance of resources at the Central Michigan University College of Medicine, but I still try to find time to speak with elementary school classrooms and their instructors about science and exploration and share with them ideas to enhance their lessons using resources that they have available to them.