Teaching

I teach an Introduction to Cultural Anthropology course tailored for students in the health professions at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. I introduce core anthropological concepts while connecting them to issues students encounter in healthcare settings.Through a series of guided exercises, students design and carry out mini qualitative projects inspired by their own interests. 

I designed and taught a course that was part seminar, part media-making lab, exploring nonfiction media production practices that embrace “ethnographic sensibilities” with regards to observation, participation, situated knowledge, and more. We looked at how a wide range of ethnographic media--from film, photography, sound to animation and interactive media projects--makes up a fluid genre that experiments with performance, reflexivity, and narrative conventions. Students experimented with ways to apply these sensibilities and insights to our own media-making practices through a series of guided exercises to produce mini audio-visual projects. For the final project, the students produced independent media projects and reflexive essays based on the readings, screenings, and guided exercises. 

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