My teaching bridges theory and lived experience, inviting students to critically engage with how race, gender, inequality, and survival are structured—and resisted—in everyday life. Grounded in feminist methodologies and critical race theory, my courses ask students to think deeply about power, care, and the systems that shape our world. Whether through texts, embodied reflection, or ethnographic methods, I aim to cultivate classrooms rooted in accountability, imagination, and transformation.
Many of the themes I explore in the classroom emerge directly from my research. Topics like food justice, household labor, structural violence, and antiblackness are not just subjects of study—they are part of the social worlds I learn from and contribute to as a scholar.
Many of the themes I explore in the classroom emerge directly from my research. Topics like food justice, household labor, structural violence, and antiblackness are not just subjects of study—they are part of the social worlds I learn from and contribute to as a scholar.
Current courses
Waterworlds: From the Ocean to the Tap — Princeton
This course explores how water shapes life, sovereignty, and survival across global contexts. Students examine water through hydrospheric and archipelagic frameworks, rethinking land, boundaries, and connection from the ocean to the tap.
Food, Culture & Society — Princeton
Through a global and comparative lens, this course explores the social, political, and emotional significance of food in everyday life. Students investigate how systems of food production and distribution intersect with memory, labor, inequality, and identity.
The Ethnographer’s Craft — Princeton
An introduction to ethnographic fieldwork, this course trains students in methods like participant-observation, interviewing, and fieldnote analysis. It also addresses the ethical and political stakes of research, preparing students to engage critically and responsibly in the field.
Gender and the Household — Princeton
This seminar examines how gender, sexuality, and kinship are shaped by race, class, colonialism, and culture. Students analyze the diverse forms and dynamics of family life, with a focus on how gendered expectations are reinforced or challenged across global and U.S. contexts.
This course explores how water shapes life, sovereignty, and survival across global contexts. Students examine water through hydrospheric and archipelagic frameworks, rethinking land, boundaries, and connection from the ocean to the tap.
Food, Culture & Society — Princeton
Through a global and comparative lens, this course explores the social, political, and emotional significance of food in everyday life. Students investigate how systems of food production and distribution intersect with memory, labor, inequality, and identity.
The Ethnographer’s Craft — Princeton
An introduction to ethnographic fieldwork, this course trains students in methods like participant-observation, interviewing, and fieldnote analysis. It also addresses the ethical and political stakes of research, preparing students to engage critically and responsibly in the field.
Gender and the Household — Princeton
This seminar examines how gender, sexuality, and kinship are shaped by race, class, colonialism, and culture. Students analyze the diverse forms and dynamics of family life, with a focus on how gendered expectations are reinforced or challenged across global and U.S. contexts.
Past courses
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Undergraduate Courses
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Graduate Seminars
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Related Readings from My Work
In many of these courses, I assign selections from my own scholarship to foster dialogue between students and the questions I explore in my research:
- “Food, Taste, and the Body: Ingestion and Embodiment in Santiago de Cuba” – Medical Anthropology Quarterly
- “There Is No Race in Cuba” – Anthropological Quarterly
- The Violence of Racial Capitalism and South Los Angeles’ Obesity Epidemic – American Anthropologist
- Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice (co-edited volume)
I regularly speak on topics including food justice, race and embodiment, structural inequality, and feminist research methods. If you are interested in inviting me for a guest lecture, panel discussion, or public talk, please get in touch through the contact page.