New York University, New York, NY

Department of Media, Culture and Comunication

Spring 2010: Adjunct Assistant Professor, “Media and Global Communication”
This interdisciplinary undergraduate seminar investigates transnational media flows and their role in economic, political, technological, and cultural dimensions of globalization. We will consider the most important approaches to globalization and media developed in critical political economy, cultural policy, cultural studies, and finely grained ethnographic case studies. Through readings and discussions, students will analyze the role of transnational media in reorganizing cultural meanings, distance and proximity, labor, finance and movement, perceptions of similarity and difference, and national and local identities. We will also examine whether global flows of media and supra-national media policies challenge or reinforce the influence of national forms of law, regulation and governance. View the reading schedule for this course.

Spring 2010: Adjunct Assistant Professor, “Introduction to Digital Media”
This course surveys digital media in their constitutive technical, cultural, historical, economic and environmental dimensions. By considering digital media practices amid other contemporary media such as print publications, broadcasting, film and music, the course will equip students with the principal vocabulary necessary for understanding technological changes and shifts in media forms. We will also investigate how people around the world in their use of digital media reconfigure—and in many cases reconstitute already existing—relationships, identities, creative expression and possibilities for political engagement. The purpose is to broaden our notions of what counts—conceptually and geographically—in understanding the new regimes of circulation and power introduced by digital technologies. View the reading schedule for this course.

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Spring 2009: Instructor, “Literature and Technology: Online Ethnography”
Designed and taught an interdisciplinary undergraduate seminar. Class discussions critically examined the novelty of the internet, the significance of online connections, and the intimacy of online experiences. Readings combined ethnographies, new media studies, science and technology studies, journalism, activism, and fiction. Students conducted semester-long individual projects in online research and writing. View the blog and the reading schedule for this course.

Wagner College, Staten Island, NY

Spring 2008: Adjunct Assistant Professor, “Anthropology 101”
Designed and taught an introductory course in cultural anthropology. Readings included contemporary and classical anthropological approaches to culture, human nature, and the diversity of human social organization, beliefs, and symbols. Exercises introduced students to the participant observation research method.

New York University, New York, NY

Department of Anthropology

Spring 2008: Adjunct Instructor, “Human Society and Culture”
Designed and taught a freshman-level introduction to cultural anthropology. Discussions explored anthropological perspectives on the critical problems in contemporary world. Contemporary and selected classical readings introduced students to the concepts of culture, ritual, kinship, socialization, exchange, commoditization and consumption. Exercises familiarized students with the participant observation research method.

Fall 2007: Adjunct Instructor, “Cultural Symbols”
Designed and taught an advanced undergraduate seminar that explored the uses of symbols in myth, ritual, politics, science, technology, media and art. Readings and discussions addressed the processes through which symbols gain significance; the effect of forms of representation and communication on meaning; the use of narrative, ritual, and metaphor.

Fall 2005: Teaching Assistant, “Peoples of Europe”
Graded exercises and papers. Developed materials for student evaluation.

Fall 2003: Teaching Assistant, “Medical Anthropology”
Graded exercises and papers. Developed materials for student evaluation.

2001-2003: Teaching Assistant, “ Human Society and Culture”
Graded exercises and papers. Developed materials for student evaluation. Led discussion sections.

Goucher College, Baltimore, MD

1998-1999: Homework Grader, “Discrete Mathematics”
Graded homework exercises and exams.

1997-1999: Student Lab Monitor for French Courses
Led weekly language lab sections.

1997-1999: Student Instructor for Computer Science Courses
Graded homework exercises and exams.