Across my teaching experiences, I have sought to cultivate spaces where we can ask difficult questions about our worlds, interrogate what we have come to take for granted, and collectively imagine what ought to be.
At the University of Alabama, much of my teaching has centered on reimagining qualitative inquiry beyond its conventional methodological boundaries. I invite students to engage research not simply as a collection of methods for studying the world, but as an ethical, political, and creative practice through which we enter into relationships, produce knowledge, and participate in shaping our collective futures.
My pedagogy is grounded in critical love, care, kindness, and solidarity. I strive to dispel fear, nurture intellectual courage, and build communities of inquiry and praxis that directly participate in the democratizing of world-building while remaining attentive to the unequal risks and consequences of doing so in the current moment.
Selected courses taught
University of Alabama
- Qualitative Research and Social Justice
- World-Building from the Global South: Special Readings in Qualitative Inquiry
- Ghost Hunting in Alabama: Historical Methods, Public Memory, and Transformation
- New and Old Materialisms: Materialist Theories in Educational Research
- Inquiry as Interpretation: Qualitative Research I
- Reflectivity and Resistance in Research (Re)Presentation: Qualitative Research II
Previous teaching
California State University, Dominguez Hills
- Multicultural Studies
- Schooling in a Multicultural Society
- Academic Discourse and Socio-Emotional Learning
University of California, Los Angeles
- Education, Inequality, and the Future of American Society