As an anthropologist, I teach to promote the understanding of variety within the humankind. To ensure that my students understand and appreciate different ways of being human, my teaching approach centers around helping students learn about their own embeddedness in structures of power; conveying the importance of empathy; and providing the tools to spot and analyze connections between larger social processes and their everyday lives.

Undergraduate-level

COURSES TAUGHT

University of North Carolina:

  • ANTH 390: Good Intentions? Global Health and Humanitarianism

  • ANTH 89: Anthropology of Disability

  • ANTH 390: Medicine, Politics, and Justice

  • ANTH 321: Global Health: Sociocultural Perspectives

  • ANTH 422: Anthropology of Human Rights and Humanitarianism

Indiana University:

  • ANTH 122: Interpersonal Communication

  • ANTH 208: Dreams, Horrors, and Possible Futures: Anthropology of SciFi

  • ANTH 260: Culture, Health, and Illness

Graduate-level

University of North Carolina:

  • ANTH 750: Graduate Seminar in Medical Anthropology