Instructor of Record
Sociology of Migration (Taught Fall 2024)
This course explores the sociological dimensions of migration, examining the causes, processes, and consequences of human movement across borders and boundaries. Students will study migration patterns, the impact of globalization, and the experiences of migrants, refugees, and displaced persons. The course will cover topics such as immigration policies, integration, transnationalism, and the role of race, ethnicity, and gender in shaping migration experiences. Through case studies and theoretical frameworks, students will critically analyze how movement, belonging, and power influence migration and its effects on both migrants and receiving societies.
Global Foodways (Taught Winter 2020, Fall 2020, and Spring 2021)
Eating is a constant, global, and quotidian experience intimately interwoven with culture, power, and movement. Food itself plays a large role in our daily routines and is integral to understanding who we are and where we are from. Additionally, culinary practices are embedded in larger migratory processes that connect people and places. This course explores the ways that food and bodies move through time and space in interactive ways. We will learn about what cuisine and movement can teach us about belonging within local and global communities by addressing questions such as: How do foodways and migratory trajectories influence individual and collective identities? What political, social, and economic activities shape global food systems and day-to-day eating customs? How do cuisine and movement relate to larger sociopolitical concepts such as territoriality, connectivity, and national identification? We will cover topics that focus on labor, transnationalism, memory, home, authenticity, gender, and much more.
Mahjar of the Americas (Taught Winter 2023)
Since the mid-1800s, migrants from Bilad al-Sham (modern-day Levantine region) have traveled to the Americas and settled in towns and cities from Canada to Argentina. Today, this diasporic community, the modern mahjar, has unique local identities while maintaining cultural, political, and economic links to distant homelands. In this course, students will engage with historical and ethnographic accounts of the contemporary mahjar, discussing similarities and differences within the transnational networks. Students will read about Palestinians in Santiago, Chile; Iraqis in Dearborn, Michigan; Lebanese in Tijuana, Mexico; and much more. From these accounts, the course will extrapolate lessons about intercultural engagement, global migration, and diasporic connectivity.
Coming to Our Senses (Designed)
Sensation, our everyday, embodied perceptions, are central to how we emote, make meaning, and emplace in our local environments. This course considers the social dimensions of sensation, examining how touch, taste, smell, sight, and sound, in addition to other, lesser-studied senses (such as interoception, the sixth sense, kinesthesia, etc.), influence interpersonal interactions. By the end of this class, students will understand how sensation is socially constructed within unique global cultures, be able to apply a sensorial lens within academic and non-academic fields alike, and have in-depth knowledge of one sensation of their choosing. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this course studies the quotidian within a collaborative, hands-on classroom experience.
Teaching Assistant
Sociology 226: Sociological Analysis. Northwestern University, Spring 2020
Sociology 201: Social Inequality: Race, Class, and Power. Northwestern University, Fall 2019
Sociology 329: Field Research and Methods of Data Collection. Northwestern University, Spring 2019
Sociology 310: The Family and Social Learning. Northwestern University, Winter 2019
Sociology 311: Food, Politics, and Society. Northwestern University, Fall 2018
Sociology 110: Introduction to Sociology. Northwestern University, Spring 2018
-Included leading weekly discussion section with 25 students