Courses

Being an educator is very rewarding, and I take my teaching responsibilities seriously. I love teaching courses that show students how to connect their day-to-day lives and observations to global social processes. My educational technique is inspired by what the late Fredric Jameson calls "cognitive mapping." A map not only shows you where you are, but helps you orient yourself in the direction in which you hope to travel. This means that I view my responsibility as a educator to not only help locate themselves in a larger web of global social relations, but figure out how to get to where they want to be (e.g., identifying the drivers of a social problem, and mapping out a possible path towards ameliorating said problem with a short, medium, and long term strategy).

 

- In 2022 I received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Political Economy of the World System (PEWS) section of the American Sociological Association (ASA).
- In 2024 I received an Innovative Pedagogy Award from Kennesaw State University.