My teaching philosophy is to create student-centered classrooms where students understand that they have a crucial role to play in the success of the teaching and learning dynamic. Culture and society are complex, powerful products of history and human action. Fostering a greater understanding of the forces that influence culture and society including attention to those factors that create, reproduce, or alleviate social inequalities is an ethic that guides my teaching. I strive to provide students with analytical and methodological tools for understanding how the world works as well as recognition of their roles within it.
My teaching philosophy is to create student-centered classrooms where students understand that they have a crucial role to play in the success of the teaching and learning dynamic. Culture and society are complex, powerful products of history and human action. Fostering a greater understanding of the forces that influence culture and society including attention to those factors that create, reproduce, or alleviate social inequalities is an ethic that guides my teaching. I strive to provide students with analytical and methodological tools for understanding how the world works as well as recognition of their roles within it.