I teach sociology as a discipline that tests its ideas against evidence. My courses move between theory and data: students read closely, learn where numbers come from and what they can bear, and practice connecting a claim to the evidence that would support or undermine it. Questions of identity, ritual, protest, and inequality run through most of what I teach, and I ask students to examine those questions in their own communities as well as in the assigned reading.
My courses range from introductory surveys to upper-division seminars — criminology; drugs, law, and society; social stratification; sociological theory; and social movements — taught at research universities, an art school, and two community colleges. That range matters to how I teach: the same material has to reach a first-year student meeting sociology for the first time and a senior preparing for graduate work, and designing for both has made me a more deliberate instructor.
Courses Designed and Taught
University of Washington
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SOC 371: Criminology
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SOC / LSJ 376: Drugs, Law, and Society
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SOC 360: Introduction to Social Stratification
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SOC 316: Introduction to Sociological Theory
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SOC 404: Sociology in Practice
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SOC 247: Contemporary Social MovementsSyllabus (PDF)
Hofstra University
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Classical Sociological Theories
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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Global Social Movements
Cascadia College
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SOC 101: Introduction to Sociology
Everett Community College
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SOC 101: Introduction to Sociology
Community Teaching
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Sociology of Social Movements
Teaching Assistantships
University of Washington
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STAT / CSSS / SOC 221: Statistical Concepts and Methods for the Social Sciences
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SOC 316: Introduction to Sociological Theory
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SOC 300: Foundations of Social Inquiry
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SOC 110: Survey of Sociology
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SOC 257: Sociology of Religion
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SOC 222: Sociology of Sport