Courses
Spring 2025 (3AC): Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
This foundational lecture-style course introduces students to key concepts, debates, and methods in sociocultural anthropology. The class explores how anthropologists study culture, power, identity, and social change across global contexts.
I have supported this course as a Graduate Student Instructor (GSI), working closely with the Head Instructor to facilitate discussion sections, grade assignments, provide feedback on student work, and help students engage critically with core texts and ethnographic case studies.
Fall 2025 (R5B): The Artist, the Author, and the Ethnographer in Black Feminist Thought
This is a reading and composition course which carefully approaches the question, “What is autoethnography?" through the lens of Black feminist thought. In this small, discussion-driven, seminar students explore a range of writing genres, including ethnography, autoethnography, memoir, travel literature, and theory, to examine how different narrative forms engage with questions of race, gender, and sexuality in global contexts through the embodied experiences of Black women artists, writers and ethnographers.
Together, students rethink the boundaries between art, literature, and ethnography, asking how these overlapping domains can offer powerful critiques of culture and society. Over the semester students develop advanced critical reading, writing, and research skills. Through engagement with course materials, we practice close reading to strengthen our writing skills. In writing assignments, which are scaffolded over the course of the semester, students will practice crafting a clear, concise, and reflexive argument about an ethnographic object. Students will learn how to find and engage with library resources, engage in peer review, and revise drafts for the 8-10 page final paper.
Spring 2026 (R5B): Re/writing Culture: Feminist Interventions in Anthropology
In this reading and composition course, students will explore key issues, themes, and debates in feminist anthropology through text and visual mediums. We will examine how ethnography, as a method and a mode of writing, is approached from a feminist perspective to understand how categories and hierarchies of sex and gender are constructed through culture and intersect with other axes of difference, such as race, nationality, disability and class. In conversation with scholarship from Black Studies, Trans Studies, Disability Studies students will engage with the following questions: How do notions of gender and sex shift across different geographical, political, and temporal contexts? And to what extent does ethnographic methods in feminist anthropology extend beyond scholarly texts to encompass visual, sonic, and other expressive forms?
(R5B): Ethnographies of Global Blackness
Currently under construction.