As a teacher, I am informed by decolonizing methods of knowledge production, and I motivate close-reading the canon as a necessary tool for critique. I aim to build a safe learning environment with my students, through which we deconstruct and challenge hierarchies within the classroom, and try to abolish them in the world. I ask students to reflect on not only “what happened”, but also how we came to know about it, in order to examine not only what we know, but where we know from.

Teaching experience 

Postdoctoral lecturer (2023-25), The New School

Courses: Boundaries and Belonging (spring 2024); Anthropology of War and Mobility (fall 2024); Borders of Capital (spring 2025)

Teaching Scholar (2022-23), Department of Anthropology, Columbia University.

Courses taught: Burning Down the House: Anthropology of Revolution

Teaching Fellow (2017-21), Department of Social Anthropology, Columbia University and Barnard College

Courses taught: Anthropology of Climate Change (Spring 2021), Race and Racisms (Spring 2019), Arabia Imagined (Fall 2018), Interpretation of Culture (Spring 2018), Film and Culture (Fall 2017)