Anthropologist and Urban Ethnographer
“As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another’s voices, in recognizing one another’s presence.”
― bell hooks, Teaching To Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
Classroom: A Space of Possibility
For me, teaching anthropology is like opening windows onto the countless ways humans give shape and meaning to their worlds. Each classroom becomes not only a place of learning about cultures, but also a space to practice seeing, listening, and thinking anthropologically in daily life. I strive to turn curiosity into discovery, and discovery into a deeper sense of our shared humanity. My teaching invites students to question what feels familiar, to encounter what seems unfamiliar, and to trace the delicate threads that weave human lives together across places and times.
Courses Taught at SMU
ANTH 2301: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 3319: Humanity and Global Environmental Change
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ANTH 3317: People and Cultures of Southeast Asia
ANTH 3345: Introduction to Ethnographic Methods
ANTH 3346: Culture and Diversity in American Life
ANTH 3350: Good Eats, Forbidden Flesh
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ANTH 3310: Gender, Sex, and Sexuality: Global Perspectives
ANTH 3328: Gender, Violence, and Health
ANTH 4305: Applied Anthropology
ANTH 7348: Social Organization - Kinship and Family
ANTH 6322: History of Anthropology, Part Two
ANTH 6316: Anthropology of Space and Place (Advanced Seminar in Ethnology)
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Courses Taught at BIGD, BRAC University, Bangladesh
Gender and Development
Research Design and Proposal Writing