Pedagogy

 
 
 

I strive to co-create learning opportunities where students are respected and supported to meet their learning goals. I hope to inspire students’ curiosity about themselves and the world around them, help them think critically within and across disciplines, model a practice of cultural humility, and foster skills that support a lifetime of learning. In my courses, students explore a diverse range of ideas, forms of scholarship, and ways of knowing (epistemologies & ontologies). I use active learning techniques, such as peer interaction, dialogue, and embodied learning to support my teaching. I also create space for practicing deep and critical reflection on difficult topics, such as power, privilege, and oppression, positionality, and ethics in research, practice, and advocacy. I hope that students leave my classroom with a sense of purpose in using their unique gifts to contribute to social justice and health equity.

 

Courses & Lectures

  • Fundamentals of Global Health

    Global Maternal and Child Health

    Research in Global Health: Qualitative Field Methods

    Global Health Challenges

  • Cultural Humility

    Decolonizing MCH Research: Theory and Qualitative Methods

    Humanitarian Maternal and Child Health seminar

    Breastfeeding and Global Health seminar

  • Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology

    Culture, Health, and Illness

    Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods

    Food, Health, and Society in Global Perspective*

    Medical Anthropology and Global Health*

    Anthropology of Babies*

    College Fellows Sophomore Seminar: Health Communications

    History of Anthropological Theory

    Senior Research Capstone Seminar

    *have taught this course as an advanced undergraduate course and graduate seminar

  • Ethical, legal, and social implications of human milk research (Reproductive and Pediatric Epidemiology Seminars)

    Community-engaged research and reproductive justice: anti-colonial approaches to perinatal health research (EPID 851: Introduction to perinatal and reproductive epidemiology)

    Ethnographic and community-based research designs. (EPID 853: Advanced reproductive, perinatal, and pediatric epidemiology)

    Breastfeeding exceptionalism: Moral economies of infant feeding in humanitarian settings. (Moral Economies of Medicine Seminar, UNC-CH Department of Anthropology)

    Intersectionality and critical race theory (MHCH 859: Doctoral seminar)

    Issues in perinatal and postpartum care during the COVID-19 pandemic (EPID 799B: Special studies in epidemiology II)

    Anthropology and public health (SPHG 101: Exploring public health fields undergraduate seminar)

    Basic skills for supporting lactation and infant feeding in emergencies - 4 hour workshop (MHCH 766: Clinical support for breastfeeding)

    Infant and Young Child Feeding Policies, Equity, and Human Rights (MHCH 722: Global maternal and child health)

    Breastfeeding and the First 1,000 Days (MHCH 680: Global sexual and reproductive health)

    Infant and young child feeding in emergencies (IYCF-E): theory, policy, and practice (MHCH 766: Clinical support for breastfeeding)

    Community-based participatory research (CBPR) for MCH topics (MHCH 702: Foundations for maternal and child health)

    Medical anthropology, breastfeeding, and global health (MHCH 801: Doctoral seminar)

    Sociological perspectives on breastfeeding: individual, family, culture, society, empowering and supporting families (MHCH 765: Clinical support for breastfeeding)

 

2016 Syllabuzz feature of “Anthropology of Babies,”Elon University [click to read]