courses
Women and the Politics of Food
Examines taste, gender and the kitchen to understand how as a cultural product and practice the trio shapes our lives and the lives of others.
Sweetness & Power
The centerpiece of this course is the groundbreaking work Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in the Modern History by Sidney Mintz. I pair this text with Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic by Amy Moran-Thomas. Through both texts, we examine food, commodities, industrialization, race and the role of history in our present.
The Photograph
This course examines photography as a social actor and its history in telling truths and making facts.
Food & Culture
This first year seminar examines the varied facets of food as a socio-cultural phenomenon to understand how what we eat constitutes who we are and who we want to become.
Latin American Nations
Builds on histories and anthropologies of Latin America to examine nationalism and indigeneity since colonization.
Anthropology of Science
Focuses on the role scientific practices and technologies play in cultural production.
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
An introduction to key debates and ways of thinking in anthropology with respect to human diversity.
Faraway Places
Draws on histories of scientific expeditions, colonialism, pilgrimage, migration, trade and tourism to think about what it means to travel and how travel shapes identity, place, space and time.
I have also taught courses on ethnographic film, the politics of humanitarian aid, and museum theory.
