I am committed to anticolonial, antiracist, and feminist pedagogical approaches. I love doing hands-on instruction—in addition to the classroom, I’ve taught in excavation, lab, and museum settings. I also have experience mentoring students and interns one-on-one at the Field Museum.

Teaching Experience

Instructor of Record

Stanford University:

-Theory & Method in Ceramic Analysis (undergrad/grad)

-Archaeological Methods (undergrad)

-Proposal Writing for Archaeologists (grad)

University of Illinois-Chicago:

-Feminist Archaeologies (undergrad)

DePaul University:

-Introduction to Archaeology (undergrad)

Graduate Teaching Assistant (led lab and discussion sections)

UIC:

-Human Adventure

-Introduction to Biological Anthropology

-Economic Geography

-Introduction to Archaeology

Purdue University:

-Introduction to Archaeology & World Prehistory

-Human Cultural Diversity

-Introduction to Biological Anthropology

-Introduction to Anthropology

Fieldwork Instruction

Project Director and Field/Lab Instructor, Proyecto de Investigación Arqueológico de Jecosh (2017-2018)

Assistant Field School Instructor, PIARA Archaeological Field School, annual summer field seasons at Hualcayán, Peru (six student sessions between 2011-2013)

Teaching Assistant, DePaul Archaeological Field School, Chicago, IL (2010)