Teaching

I teach lecture-based and seminar courses on borders, migration, labor, (non)citizenship, and cities.

I served most recently as a teaching faculty member with University of Toronto's American Studies program, where I taught core courses like Introduction to American Studies, Theory and Methods in American Studies, and advanced electives on borders, migration, labor, and transnational space.

Sample syllabus: Borderscapes - an undergraduate seminar on borders, bordering, and border crossing. I taught this version of the course to American Studies students at the University of Toronto.

Media coverage: My course Transnational America is an undergraduate seminar on transnational landscapes of bordering, global capitalism, and militarism in Southern California. The field trip component of this course was featured here. You can view some of my students’ digital Storymaps that they made in this course here.

I was a 2024-25 Community Engaged Learning Fellow at the University of Toronto, and I won an Outstanding Teaching Award - Early Career from the University of Toront Faculty of Arts & Sciences.

I’ve also worked for the University of Toronto’s Geography & Planning Department and for the Freedom Education Project Puget Sound, where I taught undergraduate courses on cities and borders.