“When you stop learning, you start dying.” – Albert Einstein
In the digital age, information is easily accessible. The increasing democratization of knowledge is shifting the role of the teacher away from that of a privileged holder of specialized knowledge. In its place, I imagine teaching as a curatorial practice – an exercise in crafting educational experiences wherein students come to appreciate how the psychological sciences can illuminate aspects of self, others, and everyday life. In my best teaching moments, I am not a repository of facts, but a catalyst of curiosity, creativity, and pragmatic action. I aim to share my passion for the dazzling complexity and reassuring simplicity of humanity in a way that promotes lifelong learning. In doing so, I inevitably become a student in my own classroom. To engage with students and see the world of psychology afresh through their eyes is an invigorating experience that fuels my own curiosity and keeps me questioning who we are as a species .
Selected Courses:
Health Studies 110: Introduction to Health Studies
Psychology 120: Biological and Cognitive Bases of Psychology
Psychology 121: Social Clinical Cultural and Developmental Bases of Psychology
Psychology 222: Personality Psychology
Psychology 226: Social Psychology
Psychology 227: Human Sexuality
Psychology 324: Research in the Qualitative Study of Lives and Social Practices
Psychology 423: Disability Discourses and Social Practices