I have been teaching courses in sexuality, cities, and nightlife 2003, and Current courses I’ve taught for the Department of Sociology and the Program in Gender Sexuality & Feminist Studies are:
- SOCI 112: Intro—You’re Not the Boss of You
- SOCI/GSFS 203: Sociology of Sexuality
- SOCI 224: Finland and its Welfare State
- SOCI 241: American Urbanism
- SOCI 303: Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory
- GSFS 305: Feminist Research Methodologies
- SOCI/GSFS 386: Nightlife—Place, Identity and Feeling Alive
- SOCI 387: Serving the Public: Restaurants, Cafés, & Bars
- SOCI 426: Alcohol and Culture
- SOCI 499: Advanced Research Methods
Recent teaching updates:
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…
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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…
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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.
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