My goal in teaching is to help students develop their own agency by reflecting on and engaging more deeply with the things that matter to them and their communities. I support students from marginalised and underrepresented communities in accessing and making use of these opportunities. Philosophy is a practice of deepening and widening one’s perspective, of provoking thought, and of developing skills of caring and attentive inquiry into objects of human significance. Teaching is essential to that conception of philosophy.
Here is a blog post I wrote for the Blog of the APA’s Syllabus Showcase series on the first time I taught my Introduction to Philosophy: From Global Perspectives course.
Instructor of record
Bard College
Introduction to Philosophy: From Global Perspectives (Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024)
Colonialism & Philosophy (Spring 2023)
W. E. B. Du Bois (Fall 2023)
First Year Seminar (Spring 2023, Spring 2024)
Senior Project Colloquium (Spring 2024, Spring 2025)
The Meanings of Movement (co-taught with Yebel Gallegos and Ingrid Becker, Fall 2024)
Contemporary Social Philosophy (Spring 2025)
Columbia University
Ethics, Summer 2020
University of Sydney
Contemporary Political Philosophy, Semester 1, 2016
Philosophy of Law, Semester 1, 2012-2016
Outreach and other
Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center
What is Success?, May 2018. I taught a three-week course as part of the Columbia Justice-in-Education Initiative and Just Ideas. We read Plato’s Alcibiades, Confucius’s Analects, and Kant’s Groundwork.
Rethink
As part of Rethink, I’ve co-facilitated discussions with court-involved youth at the Osborne Association and Harlem Justice Community Program. We use short texts (poems, quotes, videos) as well as academic texts to talk about important concepts like love, anger, justice, racism, hope, education, wonder, trust, violence, respect, and leadership. Our aim is to foster participants’ exercise and development of the skills necessary to engage in an exchange of ideas guided by mutual respect and recognition.
The Scots College
Academic Writing, Semester 2, 2014. I taught an individual research project-based course on academic writing to year 12 students as preparation for college entry.