Teaching

My aim as an educator is to help students cultivate an anthropological sensibility: the capacity to critically examine lived experiences and draw insights about broader features of social life.

I have taught students primarily at the introductory level in sociocultural and linguistic anthropology, though I am excited to teach future courses to advanced undergraduates on topics related to my research, particularly drugs, ethics, politics, embodiment, and methods.

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Drugs and American culture

In Spring 2025, I taught a course that I designed called Drugs and American Culture, for which I was awarded the Dean’s Graduate Lectureship from the George Washington University.

Through assignments that ranged from journaling to media analysis to a creative project for the public, students applied concepts and methods from anthropology to develop their own ideas about the relationship between drugs and American culture.