Peter Ekman has offered eight courses of his own design:
In every case, his teaching joins an attention to the materiality of vernacular and designed landscapes (buildings, infrastructures, open spaces, etc.) with a consuming interest in the history of ideas, both lay and expert, about how best to study, theorize, visualize, write about, govern, and intervene on those landscapes.
Between 2010 and 2016, he led seminar-style discussion sections as a Graduate Student Instructor (i.e., teaching assistant) for numerous undergraduate courses at the University of California, Berkeley, including:
In 2015, he was named the Department of Geography's Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, a distinction granted university-wide on the basis of student evaluation and faculty nomination. Detailed syllabi for any of his original courses are available upon request.
- American Cities and Social Change, Community Studies Program, University of California, Santa Cruz (2020)
- American Landscapes: History, Geography, and the Built Environment since 1500, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley (2019, 2020, 2021)
- Walkers in the City: Landscape, Mobility, and Everyday Life, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley (2020, 2021)
- Regions, Peoples, States: On Geographic Inquiry, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley (2018)
- Field Study of Buildings and Cities: A New Exploration of the Bay Region, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley (2016, 2018, 2019)
- Landscape and Life: A Historical Geography of the American Built Environment since 1850, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley (2016)
- Urban Worlds: Knowing the Global City, Department of Geography, Environment, and Planning, Sonoma State University (2017)
- Space and Society: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Geography, Department of Geography, Environment, and Planning, Sonoma State University (2017, 2018)
In every case, his teaching joins an attention to the materiality of vernacular and designed landscapes (buildings, infrastructures, open spaces, etc.) with a consuming interest in the history of ideas, both lay and expert, about how best to study, theorize, visualize, write about, govern, and intervene on those landscapes.
Between 2010 and 2016, he led seminar-style discussion sections as a Graduate Student Instructor (i.e., teaching assistant) for numerous undergraduate courses at the University of California, Berkeley, including:
- Geography 10, Regions, Peoples, and States (Profs. Jake Kosek and Nathan Sayre)
- Geography 37, The Political Geographies of Science and Technology (Prof. Jake Kosek)
- Geography 160A and 160B, American Cultural Landscapes, 1600 to 1900 and ...1900 to Present (Prof. Paul Groth; cross-listed with American Studies and Environmental Design)
In 2015, he was named the Department of Geography's Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, a distinction granted university-wide on the basis of student evaluation and faculty nomination. Detailed syllabi for any of his original courses are available upon request.