Teaching

PHILOSOPHY

Teaching demands an excellent working knowledge of our subject matter, and equally important, a nuanced understanding of how to convey information in the best possible terms according to our students as a collective audience. Good pedagogy is a set of practices that is, for most of us, learned over time. At the same time, excellent teaching means being attuned to the differences among and between students within any given institution. In this sense, good teaching is, yes, a set of both ritualistic and spontaneous practices, but it is also about intellectual and transformative connections and relationships with our students to promote effective integrative learning.

Appointments

Assistant Professor (2017 - present)
Department of Anthropology. University of Central Florida, Affiliation with the Women’s and Gender Program and Faculty Board Member of Africana Studies Program

Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2017)
Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Adjunct Lecturer (2016)
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Fordham University

Visiting Scholar (2015-2016)
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and Africana Studies Program, Lehigh University

Adjunct Lecturer (2014 - 2015)
Department of Anthropology, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey

Adjunct Lecturer (2014)
Women’s and Gender Studies Department, New Jersey City University

Visiting Scholar (2014 - 2015)
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Lehigh University

Sarah Pettit Doctoral Fellow (2013 - 2014)
LGBT Studies, Yale University

Visiting Doctoral Researcher (2012 - 2013)
ISC/MUSA-UFBA (Instituto Saude Colectivo/Saude da Mulher, Universidade Federal da Bahia)

Courses Taught

UNDERGRADUATE-LEVEL

University of Central Florida
Medical Anthropology, ANT 4462
Race Matters: Anthropology of Racism, ANT 3451
Peoples and Cultures in Latin America, ANT 4332
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, ANT 2410
Language and Culture, ANT 3410

Fordham University
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
Body Politics
Medical Anthropology
Sexuality and Eroticism in Global Perspectives

New Jersey City University
Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
Race, Class and Gender Activism

State University of New York at Downstate, Physician Assistant Program
Neurosurgery

GRADUATE-LEVEL

University of Central Florida
Advanced Medical Anthropology, ANT 5738

Graduate Center, CUNY
Anthropology of Ethics, ANT 70800