Research
I am currently conducting SoTL research based on data I collected in my Culture & Society courses during AY 2018-2019. This IRB-approved study focuses on the mechanisms through which students come to challenge their ethnocentrism and internalize cultural relativism.
Gender
This course examines gendered patterns in global inequality with special attention to recognizing women’s voices, agency, and differences, in the context of larger structures of power.
Courses
This course is an introduction to Socio-Cultural Anthropology that reflects the value of a four-field approach to American Anthropology, while emphasizing the confluence of the Social Sciences and the Humanities in the Socio-Cultural tradition.
Environment
In the course, we discussed the principal theories and methods environmental anthropology utilizes and the issues on which it focuses, by looking at case studies from South Asia and the Midwestern US.
Courses
Food and Culture offers students a way to explore in-depth an area of anthropology that is growing in popularity but has been a part of the field since its inception.
Anthropology
Equivalent in many ways to Culture and Society, this course was the introductory level offering for the cultural anthropology sub-field at the main campus (Rose Hill) of Fordham University in Fall 2015.
Food Studies
The course focused on the topic of agricultural biodiversity conservation, and so was related to my focus areas of food and the environment.
Environment
In Fall 2011, I served as a teaching assistant/grader in this course, which was focused on foundations of social science through the lens of environmental sustainability and challenges to it.