Teaching

I am passionate about teaching. Few things give me as much fulfillment as helping students achieve their own goals and providing them with a few “aha” moments along the way. I currently teach in the Department of Anthropology at Brandeis University. I have also taught at Brown University, the University of California San Diego, CUNY Hunter College and City College, a community college, and, thanks to some passionate people there and the DoC, a prison. It is a privilege and an honor to be able to teach students from various backgrounds and with different aspirations.

I am qualified to teach courses in anthropology, Japanese studies, and religious studies.

Courses that I have taught or are teaching include:

Graduate level

Linguistic Theory and Practice

The Anthropology of Religion

The History of Anthropological Theory

Religious Words and Worlds

The State and the Circulation of Meaning

Advanced Ethnographic Research Methods

Undergraduate level

Language, Oppression, and Empowerment

Suffering and Compassion

Topics in Contemporary Japanese Studies

Listening and Society

Race and Racisms

Language and Society

Animation, Time, and Life

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Sound and Symbols: Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

Debating Multiculturalism

Ethnographic Research Methods

Language, Politics, and Identity

Disaster Capitalism

Language and Culture

Psychological Anthropology

Language, Identity, and Community

Haunting

Global Perspectives (International Studies)

Introduction to Anthropology (as a four-field discipline)

Academic Writing