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.
In Spring 2024, I’ll be teaching Bard’s First Year Seminar and the Philosophy Program’s Senior Project Colloquium.
Instructor of record
Bard College
Introduction to Philosophy: From Global Perspectives (Fall 2022, Fall 2023)
Colonialism & Philosophy (Spring 2023)
W. E. B. Du Bois (Fall 2023)
First Year Seminar (Spring 2023, Spring 2024)
Senior Project Colloquium (Spring 2024)
Columbia University
Ethics, Summer 2020
University of Sydney
Contemporary Political Philosophy, Semester 1, 2016
Philosophy of Law, Semester 1, 2012-2016
Teaching Assistant/Tutor
Columbia University
Kant (Patricia Kitcher), Spring 2020
Ethics (Carol Rovane), Fall 2020
Ethics (Michele Moody-Adams), Spring 2019
Hegel (Fred Neuhouser), Fall 2018
History of Philosophy II: Aquinas to Kant (John Morrison), Spring 2018
Philosophy & Feminism (Christia Mercer), Fall 2017
University of Sydney
Philosophy and Literature (Moira Gatens), Semester 2, 2015
Philosophy and Human Rights (Alexandre Lefebvre), Semester 2, 2015
Reality, Ethics, and Beauty (Anik Waldow), Semester 1, 2014
Society, Self, and Knowledge (Anik Waldow), Semester 2, 2013-2015
Philosophy of Law (Kyla Reid), Semester 1, 2011
Macquarie University
Constitutional Law (Joel Harrison), Semester 1, 2014-2016
Constitutional Law (Iain Stewart), Semester 1, 2013
Jurisprudence (Denise Meyerson), Semester 2, 2012-2015
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.