teaching

I hold a PhD in performance studies from Northwestern University and currently teach as an assistant professor of performance art at Fairhaven college of Interdisciplinary Studies, western Washington University. my teaching and research are situated at the intersections of Performance Studies, Visual Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Gender and Sexuality Studies, migration/refugee studies, and African Studies.  i believe in risk, vulnerability, experiential learning, critique, close reading, and accountability in the classroom. I am the recipient of the Dwight Conquergood Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Robert S. Breen Memorial Award for Socially Engaged Performance both awarded by Northwestern University as well as the Faculty Senate Diversity and Social Justice Research Grant and the Thaddeus Spratlen and Lois price-spratlen inclusion and diversity grant.

CLASSES TAUGHT INCLUDE:

Introduction to Performance Studies

Community-based Performance

Adaptation

Acts of Activism

Performing Out of Place

Queer and Trans Performance and Politics

Decolonial Praxis

Creative Ethnography

Performance and the Law

Queer Migration and Diaspora

Oral history Performance

Performing Race

Global Stages, Local Acts (Transnational performance)

Sustainable Performance: Ecology and Aesthetics