Based on my research interests, my in-classroom pedagogy teaches students how to conduct decolonial research that advances social justice for Indigenous, Latinx, and other people of color communities. In my sections for an “Introduction to Ethnic Studies” course, I assigned readings by women of color feminists to frame academic knowledge as a social formation that has historically excluded racialized minorities. In my “Indigenous Politics in the Americas” seminar, I paired peer reviewed scholarship with primary source materials to teach students how to evaluate critical knowledge and other ways of knowing. In my courses, I assign traditional essays and creative assignments based on syllabi readings that encourage students to theorize new forms of equity and justice for marginalized communities.
I am prepared to teach the following courses:
Introductory courses
- Native American and Indigenous Studies
- Latin American and Latinx studies
- comparative Ethnic Studies
- sociocultural anthropology
Intermediate courses
- Global Indigenous rights
- Decolonizing Anthropology
- Critical geographies of Indigeneity
- Indigenous politics in Latin America
- Indigenous peoples and the environment
- Hemispheric Indigenous migrations
- Decolonial research methodologies
Advanced undergraduate / graduate seminars
- Place, space, and power
- Indigeneity, colonialism, and the state
- Race and capital
- History, memory, and nation
I have taught the following courses: