Department:
Honors College, Anthropology
Degrees:
Ph.D. and M.A., Temple University (Anthropology); M.A., University of Texas at Austin (Photojournalism/Visual Communication); B.A., Rhodes College (Sociology & History)
Curriculum Vitae:
Teaching Experience:
Since 2004, I have taught at five institutions of higher education in multiple departments and states. I teach a range of courses crossing over anthropology, and visual communication, in addition to multiple interdisciplinary courses. Honors seminars I have offered most recently include: (HON 1515) Balanced Brains: Integration and Visual, Intuitive Intelligence; (HON 2515) Food Fights: Cannibalizing Culture; and (HON 3515) Mind-full and Culture-full, a class incorporating community based research and service-learning.
Why I like to teach honors courses:
Teaching Honors students allows me to engage with and offer students I share the room with today education so they can become the students I want to share the world with tomorrow. I see Honors students as those who don’t fit neatly into any one box. Rather they are the ones whose interests, passions, and curiosities span multiple disciplines, majors, and career paths. I can relate to this breadth. My goal is to invite and direct students to seek and add depth of knowledge in those areas they are inspired. What is common to all my teaching is the same for the mission of Honors broadly—interdisciplinary liberal arts education with the goals of professional success, lifelong learning, and engaged citizenship (locally and globally). Across all my courses, my teaching pedagogy is discussion-based, student-driven, and employs experiential learning.
Emeritus:
No