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Associate professor, Department of Philosophy and School of Environment, McGill University, 2007-present
Assistant professor, ibid., 2001-2007
Instructor and post-doctoral research associate, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Center for the Study of Science and Technology, Rice University, 1998-2001
Post-doctoral research associate, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, 1998
Coordinator, Environmental Center, ibid., 1997
Teaching assistant, Departments of Geophysical Sciences and Ecology and Evolution, ibid., 1990-1997
Instructor; Program in the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine; ibid., 1993
Research assistant, Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, 1993
Research assistant, Division of Mammals, Field Museum of Natural History, 1991-1992
Acting director, Recycling Office, University of Chicago, 1990
Natural and cultural history tours in the Capahuari and Pastaza River watersheds, Ecuador, 2010
Wilderness survival course, Tom Brown Jr.'s Tracker School, New Jersey, 2009
Conservation research at Kibale National Park, Uganda, 2008
Democracy School; Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund; New Hampshire, 2007; Montréal, 2008; Vermont, 2011
Hiking the Long Trail bit by bit, Vermont, 2006-present
Canoe expedition down the Old Factory River to James Bay, Québec, 2004
Catskill Poetry Workshop, New York, 2004
Field botany course at Mont Saint Hilaire, Québec; 2004
Workshop on "Ecological Metaphors", National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, California, 2004
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Vermont, 2003
ABC English-language camp on the shore of Lake Baikal, Russia, 2003
Environmental research, EarthWatch Institute, in and around Lake Naivasha, Kenya, 2000
Seminar on "Philosophy of Experimental Inference", National Endowment for the Humanities, Virginia, 1999
Seminar on "Competing Epistemologies in Biology", Dibner Institute for the History of Science, Massachusetts, 1996
Seminar on "Ecology and Conservation Biology", ibid., 1995
Seminar on "Extinctions", ibid., 1994
Biodiversity survey in the forest fragments of Oaxaca, Mexico, 1993
Field ecology course, Organization for Tropical Studies, La Selva and many other sites in Costa Rica, 1990
Ph.D., Conceptual Foundations of Science, University of Chicago, 1997
M.S., Ecology and Evolution, ibid., 1992
B.A., International Affairs, Trinity University, 1987