Over more than a decade, I have taught anthropology to undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Cornell University, Cayuga Correctional and Five Points Correctional (Cornell Prison Education Program), and the University of Oslo. My teaching is grounded in two commitments that I carry across every classroom: an abolitionist approach to pedagogy, and a multimodal practice that treats film, fiction, and art as ethnographic and theoretical sources in their own right.
I have designed the following original courses as the sole convener:
Technoscience and Medicine in Africa (BA level)
Biomedicine and the Body (BA level)
Introduction to Anthropology (Associate Degree level)
Anthropology of Outer Space (BA level)
Environmental Anthropology (BA level, forthcoming Fall 2026)
I have co-taught or lectured for the following topics:
Regional Ethnography of Africa (BA/MA level)
Advanced Social Theory (MA level)
Multimodal and Visual Anthropology (BA level)
Anthropology of Development (MA level)
I have also been the supervisor for MA-level students in anthropology, and am interested in developing approaches for disability- and neurodivergence-friendly mentorship.
For more on Abolitionist Pedagogy, see the series that I co-curated with Trishna Senapaty for the Society for Cultural Anthropology's "Teaching Tools": Abolitionist Pedagogies