My teaching philosophy stems from a commitment to understanding human sociality from sustained empirical engagement with the diverse ways in which humans experience and make sense of the world.
I am committed to offering students from underrepresented backgrounds the tools to thrive on equal terms. I seek to decenter the problems and priorities of US academia and explore with students how different kinds of research questions emerge from the Global South, which have other pressing political problems and distinct academic traditions.
At the University of Chicago, I taught in the social sciences core sequences “Self, Culture, and Society” and “Power, Identity, and Resistance”, as well as a course of my own design, “The State as Imagination, Fetish, Spectacle”, an Anthropology Department’s Prize Lectureship. At Rochester, I will teach “(Il)legal Anthropology” among other courses.