TEACHING ASSISTANT
US Racial and Ethnic Movements (2009, 2010), Introduction to Sociology (2007), Migrant Nation: Australian Culture and Identity (University of Melbourne, 2004), Introduction to Global Politics (University of Melbourne, 2003)
Awards: Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow, Trained other TAs, 2008
ADDITIONAL TEACHING
“Introduction to Vietnamese Culture, Language, and Society,” Carroll University, Waukesha, WI (June 2011, June 2012)
“Writing the College Admissions Statement of Purpose” Taught this course to 181 rising senior high school students in a first-generation pre-college summer residential enrichment program, UW-Madison, WI (Summer 2010)
“Introduction to Policy Analysis and Communication,” UC Public Policy and International Affairs Junior Summer Institute, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California-Berkeley, CA (Summer 2008)
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I have a deep interest in teaching and mentoring students. I have enjoyed over ten years of cumulative experience teaching undergraduate students in diverse settings, in the US and abroad, as well as in a service-learning capacity at UC Berkeley, University of Melbourne, University of Wisconsin-Madison and elsewhere. Among relevant courses I have enjoyed teaching include: Introduction to Public Policy Analysis and Communication, Migrant Nation, US Racial and Ethnic Movements, and Introduction to Vietnamese Culture and Society. I would be able to develop complementary courses on the topic of the comparative race and ethnicity; gender, migration and development; and introductory courses in sociological theory and qualitative methods; and upper-division courses on Asian Americans/Asian diaspora. My experiences as an educator have taught me that teaching is best understood as collaborative research between teachers, students, and stakeholders beyond the campus. I have significant experience teaching first generation college students and high school students. I have sought to promote service-learning education and have developed extracurricular off-campus workshops for high school students of immigrant and refugee backgrounds to document their family histories, instilling in them a desire to draw from the sociological imagination to connect personal milieus with social structure. I am also inclined to incorporate multimedia, new technologies, and the voices of community guest speakers in the classroom, when appropriate to the lecture.