I have wanted to be a teacher for as long as I can remember. This interest shaped many of my early experiences and led me to my first job after finishing college: founding a high school writing center and teaching English on the West Side of Chicago. Now, as a college professor, the same commitments to relationships and care, multimodal explorations, and examinations of inequity that guide my research program also inform my work in the classroom.
Here’s a recent write-up about some of my teaching from the Center on Teaching Excellence at Boston College.
Below are the courses I have taught at Barnard College, Boston College, and while a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania and New York University.
BARNARD COLLEGE
Ethnographies of Youth Confinement, Constraint, and Resistance (Undergraduate Education/Sociology Seminar) - Instructor, Spring 2024 & Fall 2024
Senior Thesis Seminar in Education (Undergraduate Education Seminar) - Co-Instructor, Fall 2024
Educational Foundations (Undergraduate Education Course) - Instructor, Spring 2024
American Gun Violence: Causes and Consequences (Barnard Pre-College Program) - Instructor, Summer 2024
Boston college
Real Estate and Urban Action: Transforming Communities and Increasing Access to Opportunities (Interdisciplinary Team-Taught Core Course) - Labs Instructor, Fall 2022
Encountering Confinement: Ethnographies of Youth Captivity and Constraint (Undergraduate Sociology Seminar) - Instructor, Spring 2022
Grief & Resistance: Social Responses to American Gun Violence (Undergraduate Sociology Seminar) - Instructor, Fall 2021
Who Are You? Sociology of Self (Undergraduate Sociology Seminar) - Instructor, Spring 2021
Where #BlackLivesMatter Meets #MeToo: Violence and Representation in the African Diaspora (Interdisciplinary Team-Taught Core Course) - Labs Instructor, Fall 2020
University of Pennsylvania
Urban Studies Junior Fieldwork Seminar - Instructor, Spring and Summer 2019
Africana Studies Summer Institute for Pre-Freshmen - Teaching Assistant, Summers 2016-2019
Qualitative Modes of Inquiry (Graduate Education Course) - Teaching Assistant, Spring 2018
Ethnographic Filmmaking (Graduate Education Course) - Teaching Assistant, 2016-2017
New York University
Intergroup Dialogue Program: Race Dialogue (Undergraduate) - Co-Facilitator, Spring 2012