“To teach is not to transfer knowledge but to create the possibility for the production or construction of knowledge.”

Paulo Freire

​​Courses Taught
Rutgers-University Newark
Undergraduate, Department of Political Science

• Latin American Politics. 
• Introduction to Comparative Politics  
• Introduction to Human Rights 
• Violence and Human Rights in Latin America 
  
• Social Movements and Struggles for Justice 

 
       Graduate Classes:

• Approaches to Political Science 
• Social Movements 
• Workshop: Writing the Dissertation Prospectus
• MA Poli Sci Capstone

 
Brown University
        Undergraduate Senior Seminar

• Violence and Human Rights in Latin America. Department of International Relations
• Social Movements and Struggles for Justice. Department of Political Science

 
Cornell University
Undergraduate, First Year Writing Seminar

• “Power and Politics: Theory and Practice of Human Rights.” First Year Writing Seminar, Government Department 

Educational Philosophy
 I see my teaching as contributing to a larger political project that encourages critical discourse and democracy, and questions structures of oppression and inequality. Experiential learning, critical reflection and democratically structured classrooms are the building blocks of my teaching practice. My teaching is most successful when I push my students to tackle big questions using diverse evidence from text, personal experience and diverse theoretical literatures.