TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
As a recipient of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Inclusive Excellence and a pedagogical leader on campus, I place a premium on fostering students’ ability to understand how racial, gendered, sexual, and other axes of difference intersect in their lives and in the lives of others. I achieve this goal by foregrounding project-based research, peer review, small group discussions, “reflection papers,” and writing-intensive instruction in the classroom. Interdisciplinary learning is equally central to my classes – all of which expose students to seminal texts and theoretical approaches in gender and women’s studies, African American studies, and political theory. My ultimate aim is to develop students’ critical thinking skills in ways that enable them to discern and craft their own unique intellectual and activist projects.
COURSES
University of Wisconsin
Feminist Research Methods (graduate seminar)
Feminist Theories and Masculinities (honors undergraduate and graduate lecture/discussion)
Black Feminisms (undergraduate lecture/discussion)
Theorizing Intersectionality (upper-level undergraduate and graduate seminar)
African American Political Thought (undergraduate lecture/discussion)
Contemporary Feminist Theories (undergraduate lecture/discussion)
Feminist Political Theory (graduate seminar)
University of Chicago
Problems in the Study of Gender (undergraduate seminar)
B.A. Honors Essay/Seminar (undergraduate seminar)
Research Methods in Gender Studies (undergraduate seminar)
PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING AND LEARNING
Participant, TeachOnline@UW: Facilitation & Management and Preparing to Teach Online, UW-Madison
Trainer & Instructional Coach, The Discussion Project, College of Education, UW-Madison
Co-Facilitator, Graduate Student Training and Pedagogy Workshop, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, UW-Madison
Guest Speaker, Teaching about Race in Troubling Times, College of Education, UW Madison
Participant, Annual Teaching & Learning Symposium, UW-Madison