Teaching

I am interested in teaching courses that address individuals' experiences in social change, such as work and global change, sociology of development, social structure and change, theories of political economy, and sociological theories. I believe classrooms are great places to facilitate the students' and my understandings of the current era we are in and the future we are heading into. Below I list the courses I have taught at the University of Chicago.

Perspectives in Social Science Analysis

MAPSS Preceptor, Autumn 2020

Perspectives in Social Science Analysis is an introduction to graduate-level research and writing in the social sciences. It has two primary objectives. First, Perspectives will familiarize you with some of the main traditions of theoretical argument in the social sciences today so that you can participate effectively in your courses. Second, together with your methods course, Perspectives will enhance your ability to formulate and execute a successful master’s thesis. Some of you will enter Perspectives to find the way (or ways) of thinking about social life and individual behavior that is most congenial to you. Others of you may know the perspective you already favor. Either way, we intend that the course will give you deeper insight into each perspective, that it will unsettle you in the encounter with the familiar, and that it will stimulate you in the encounter with the unfamiliar. As you will see during your time in the program, some of the most important work in the social sciences is the product of scholars who were willing to think beyond the confines of a single perspective.

Global Future of Work (self-designed course, winner of Robert E. Park Lectureship)

Instructor, Winter 2020

Rapid social changes in the 21st century have significantly transformed the landscape of work and employment, and some of the most salient trends include globalization, increasing precarity, and automation. This course examines 1) the political, economic, and technological contexts of the most recent and profound transformation of work; 2) their global impacts on skill formation, inequality, and workers’ livelihoods; and 3) the future of work. We will cover topics such as: concepts and theories of work and work organizations, gender and race dynamics at workplaces, control over work activities and work time, globalization of work activities, and prospects for social movements related to work.

Power, Identity and Resistance - Classic Theories in Political Economy

Instructor, Winter 2019

This seminar is the second of a three-quarter sequence in the Social Sciences Common Core. This course highlights the organization of the economic process and the ways in which it relates to social and political relations and institutions. It examines topics such as the organization of exchange, the logic of the division of labor, individual freedom and its constraints, the role of power in economic practice, the scope for political intervention in the economy, and the relationship between inequality and capitalist economic development. Readings include classic works in modern political economy and its critique by Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Peter Kropotkin, Jane Addams, Alexandra Kollontai, Milton Friedman, and Sidney Mintz.

Social Structure and Change

Teaching Assistant with Professor Marco Garrido, Winter 2016

The course introduces students to a number of sociological perspectives. Students will learn how to identify properly sociological objects and how to engage in various modes of sociological analysis. In the class, students will discuss social facts, forms, types, and relations; the constitution of the self and the performance of the self; theories of action and identity. Readings include Mead, Garfinkel, Goffman, Bourdieu, Tilly, Fanon, etc.

Sociological Theory

Teaching Assistant with Professor Andrew Abbott, Autumn 2015

This course provides a survey of sociological theory of the classical period - late 19th and early 20th centuries. Readings include: Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Georg Simmel, and John Dewey.