I currently teach courses at the University of Chicago on Latin America and the Caribbean. In addition to the proseminar for their B.A. and M.A. programs in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, I offer courses on extractivism, social movements, race, gender, and indigeneity, and a graduate level seminar on "toxic states." In 2018, my courses also covered topics of decolonial theory & science, medicine, and technology studies, and the life politics of the Catholic Church.
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Previously at Northwestern University , I instructed courses on environmental anthropology and toxicity and politics.
At the University of California, Davis I taught the anthropology department's undergraduate course on globalization and TA'd for courses on Race and Science, Political Ecology, and Cultural Anthropology.
Multimedia Products
In my classes, I want students to imagine their ideas traveling beyond the classroom. To that end, many of my classes ask students to create collaborative digital projects that distill research and course concepts in accessible public platforms. For the final project of my spring 2016 seminar on Toxicity, Politics, and Slow Violence at Northwestern University, students collaboratively researched the conditions of emergence and subsequent effects of the water crisis in Flint, MI. Together, they supported each other’s individual research and designed a digital platform to disseminate their final product. You can learn about their process and view the outcome on Adobe's Spark platform here.
I am currently using this type of final project for my upper-division courses on Latin American Extractivisms and Social Movements. For example, see the excellent compilation of essays on Venezuelan Oil written by students in 2018 here
See current course descriptions here
Previously at Northwestern University , I instructed courses on environmental anthropology and toxicity and politics.
At the University of California, Davis I taught the anthropology department's undergraduate course on globalization and TA'd for courses on Race and Science, Political Ecology, and Cultural Anthropology.
Multimedia Products
In my classes, I want students to imagine their ideas traveling beyond the classroom. To that end, many of my classes ask students to create collaborative digital projects that distill research and course concepts in accessible public platforms. For the final project of my spring 2016 seminar on Toxicity, Politics, and Slow Violence at Northwestern University, students collaboratively researched the conditions of emergence and subsequent effects of the water crisis in Flint, MI. Together, they supported each other’s individual research and designed a digital platform to disseminate their final product. You can learn about their process and view the outcome on Adobe's Spark platform here.
I am currently using this type of final project for my upper-division courses on Latin American Extractivisms and Social Movements. For example, see the excellent compilation of essays on Venezuelan Oil written by students in 2018 here
