My teaching has two aims: first, to create a classroom environment that makes engagement inescapable and, second, to foster critical self-reflection by drawing connections between the subject matter, students’ own lives, and broader social structures. I believe that good teaching leaves students with more questions than answers. It not only helps them absorb and retain the maximum amount of information but also gives them new tools with which to interrogate the social world and their own place in it long after the class is over.

Courses taught

Sociology of gender. (Sole instructor for 80-person lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.) Syllabus. Evaluations.

Courses prepared to teach

Undergraduate
Introduction to sociological theory
Sociology of food and agriculture
Environmental sociology
International development

Graduate
Governance of global resources and sustainable development
Political economy of agro-food systems
Global commodities: theoretical and methodological approaches