Teaching
Lecturing experience
Globalization and Health
2019, 2022-present
School for International Training (International Honors Program)
Globalization and Health offers a critical analysis of globalization as a set of complex political, economic, cultural, historical, and ecological processes, focusing on how these intersect with issues of health and wellbeing.
Public Health in South Africa
October 2019
School for International Training (International Honors Program)
In this course, students will learn about public health with an emphasis on exploring determinants of health including social, cultural, political, and economic factors. This course will actively examine how public health practitioners work to identify and respond to public health challenges building on local community strengths.
Health, Culture & Community
2018-2019
School for International Training (International Honors Program)
This course will offer an introduction to some of the key theoretical and analytical tools of contemporary medical anthropology. We will approach human health, disease and (un)wellbeing from the perspective that these realities are shaped by the multifaceted and complex contexts in which we live our lives – including communities, landscapes, and local and global political-economic structures.
Qualitative research methods & ethics
2018-2019
School for International Training (International Honors Program)
Health researchers employ a variety of methodological approaches in order to produce information about and with the population of interest and to make inferences based on that. This course focuses on the study and application of community-based research methods.
Medical Anthropology
2018
University of Cape Town
This course encompasses sociocultural, biocultural, and political economic approaches to examine existential human experiences of health, well-being, and affliction. The course is designed as an introduction to the major theoretical schools and critical issues of contemporary medical anthropology.
Dialogues & Diversity in South Africa
2017-2018
IES Abroad (Cape Town)
Concepts of diversity and identity found in South African and U.S. cultures will be examined and compared while placing students’ experiences and observations as a central lens for exploration. Students will be expected to participate in discussion of readings and dialogues centered around increased awareness of social identity and its influence on individuals, systems, structures, and communities.
Guest Lectures
“Reproductive Technologies” and “Race and Reproductive Justice” modules in Medical Anthropology (undergraduate) in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. April-May 2025.
“Reproductive Technologies” module in Medical Anthropology (3rd year undergraduate-level course) in the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University, the Netherlands. April 2025.
“Social Stratification: Race & Gender” module in Social Medicine and Intersecting Inequalities (undergraduate) in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London, UK. February 2025.
“Epistemology and Feminist Science and Technology Studies” module in Global Maternal and Child Health (postgraduate) in the College of Public Health at the University of South Florida, USA. January 2025.
“The Politics of Reproduction” module in Social Science and Health (postgraduate) in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. August 2024.
“Biopolitics and Biocitizenship” module in Medical Anthropology (undergraduate) in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. April 2018.