pedagogy

service learning

My position at a predominantly teaching focused university affords the opportunity bridge fieldwork and pedagogy through service learning with community based partners. Learning through coffee development projects and ethnographic research in Vietnam is one way students learn more about the paradox of coffee production and the politics of ethnic minority farming communities.

open access | affordable learning solutions

I have participated in several affordable learning solutions initiatives at Cal State Fullerton and pride myself on keeping classroom costs at or near zero dollars for my students. For more on affordable learning solutions in the California State University system, please see the AL$ website.

Courses and graduate student recruitment

I regularly teach the following classes at CSUF, often with multiple sections of introductory classes each semester:

• Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (ANTH 102); Peoples of Asia (ANTH 340); Ethnographic Field Methods (ANTH 401); Global Ethnographies of Food (ANTH 413)*; Economic Anthropology (ANTH 414), Special Topics: Environmental Anthropology (ANTH 490T)

I am currently recruiting MA students interested in multispecies anthropology, the bureaucracy of agricultural development, the politics of sustainability, and more generally, the anthropology of food, environmental anthropology, and visual culture.