Tag: teaching

• April 29, 2021

  Teaching with Disco Déjeuner

  To support my nightlife class during the COVID-19 pandemic, Assistant Professor of Dance Al Evangelista and I hosted a midday speaker series Disco Déjeuner: Lunchtime Conversations on the Future of Nightlife. Speakers included multi-hyphenate artists, activists, academics, and entrepreneurs discussing the way forward. A list of the speakers and more information can be found here.
• February 23, 2021

  Article: Responding to Wobbly Classrooms through Scaffolded, Peer-Led, Small-Group Presentations of Personal Learning Goals: The Beyond the Book Tool

  This article in Teaching Sociology discusses a pedagogical technique I developed while teaching my SOCI/GSFS 203: Sociology of Sexuality. Teaching topics that implicate student identities, traumas, and/or activism is challenging because students often come with very personal attachments to curricular and extracurricular topics, such as in courses on sexualities, race, gender, and/or social movements. These […]
• November 1, 2019

  Cleveland Immersion Program in the news

  For four years I led the academic components of Cleveland Immersion Program that took students into Cleveland to explore Northeast Ohio. You can learn more about it in this news article.
• November 16, 2017

  Teaching Weinstein, Spacey, Sexual Assault, and New Skirmishes in Old Sex Wars

  I’m teaching my sociology of sexuality class this semester. I often leave a gap in the syllabus for students to pick a topic that hasn’t been addressed. It helps me learn new things from them, respond to current events, and fill in the topical gaps for a class that students’ in which students are often […]