During my three decades of teaching at Wheaton, I have designed and taught a whole array of Sociology courses, from the foundational to the senior capstone and in the sub-field of Inequality and Social Change. My topical interdisciplinary courses served 3 majors (Sociology, Women & Gender Studies and Asian Studies), and those I taught recently focused on: Cities (field based course); Globalization (including the 13th century world before the rise of European hegemony); Inequality; Immigration; Genocide; Self & Society; Asians & America; Transnational Feminism; Gender & Nation (upper level seminar on postcolonial and transnational feminist theory).

I have also served as the Program & Resident Director at Royal Thimphu College in Fall 2011, in the program’s second year to develop a liberal arts education in Bhutan. Designing study-away programs over the Winter Session, I led field based studies in Vietnam (Winter 2003/4) and South Africa (Winter 2018/19). As a recipient of the Mellon Foundation’s institutional grant to advance the “Integrative Learning in the Humanities,” I co-designed and spearheaded a semester-away program in Fall 2019, in Miami, Florida, that focused on transnational cultural studies, interculturality and border crossings. This program was launched at a prominent art museum in Miami to promote Public Humanities and our courses were open to the museum staff and patrons.