Teaching Repertoire
Wheelock College:
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (click for recent syllabus)
Anthropology of the Family (click for recent syllabus)
American Identities (introduction to American Studies) (click for recent syllabus)
Anthropology of American Men (click for recent syllabus)
First-Year Seminar
Family Theories
Religion in America (click for recent syllabus)
Summer Professional Development Institutes (for graduate students and professionals seeking CEU's/PDP's):
Fathers: Their Impact on the Lives of Children and Families
Boys: More at Risk Than We Think?
DePauw University:
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Human Cultures)
Anthropology of Childhood and Parenting
Men and Masculinity
Food and Culture
Anthropology of Women and Gender
Anthropology of Art and Museums
South Pacific Cultures
Anthropology of Religion
Psychological Anthropology (Mind, Self and Emotion in Culture)
History of Anthropological Theory
Anthropology of the Body and Sexuality
Anthropology of Time and Space
Anthropology of Judaism
Biblical Ritual and Myth
Folklore (team-taught)
Social Science Honor Scholar Seminars (Violence, Society and Utopia; Sacrifice, Religion and the Morality of Culture;
Sacrificial Religions, Modes of Thought, Cultural Gazes; Religion, Sexuality and Violence)
Winter Term (January) courses:
From Shangri-la to Mount Everest: Nepal through Tourism, Himalayan Trekking, Utopian Desire and Hindu-Buddhist Religion
Death Around the World
Winter Term advisor of student internships.
Winter Term advisor of several student independent research projects, including: health care among the Chamorros (Guam); Hawaiian sovereignty movement; tourism and Hawaii; Samoan music and cultural identity in Hawaii; food and markets in Mexico.
Teaching Awards: Certificate of Excellence, Mortar Board, DePauw University, 1996.
Teaching Workshops:
Speaking Workshop, DePauw University.
Week-long workshop on designing courses to foster student speaking, 2005. Great Lakes Colleges Assoc.
Course Design and Teaching Workshop, “Reaching Our Students,” 1997.
