In my work as an educator, three pedagogical practices guide my teaching:
1) Connecting theory and concepts to current events,
2) Learning from lived experience, and
3) Fostering safe, critical, and empathetic dialogue.
I engage students to learn by connecting current events, popular culture, and political issues. To value lived experience as a theoretically rich place of learning (Collins 1990; Smith 2005), I encourage students to draw inspiration from their own lives. Because topics in sociology (and the social sciences more broadly) can be sensitive, I strive to create classroom atmospheres that foster empathy, care, and space for safer discussions grounded in rigorous, critical engagement with empirical evidence and theory.
As an adjunct professor, I have taught Medicalization of Deviance (a 4th-year sociology class) and Social Control (a 3rd-year sociology class). I have also taught a range of sociology courses as a teaching assistant, including introductory sociology, qualitative methods, policing, criminal justice, law & social theory, gender, sexuality, social movements, and the sociology of the life course and ageing.
1) Connecting theory and concepts to current events,
2) Learning from lived experience, and
3) Fostering safe, critical, and empathetic dialogue.
I engage students to learn by connecting current events, popular culture, and political issues. To value lived experience as a theoretically rich place of learning (Collins 1990; Smith 2005), I encourage students to draw inspiration from their own lives. Because topics in sociology (and the social sciences more broadly) can be sensitive, I strive to create classroom atmospheres that foster empathy, care, and space for safer discussions grounded in rigorous, critical engagement with empirical evidence and theory.
As an adjunct professor, I have taught Medicalization of Deviance (a 4th-year sociology class) and Social Control (a 3rd-year sociology class). I have also taught a range of sociology courses as a teaching assistant, including introductory sociology, qualitative methods, policing, criminal justice, law & social theory, gender, sexuality, social movements, and the sociology of the life course and ageing.