I am happy to be contacted by students considering our department for their studies. I generally work with students that share a thematic or regional interest, which may include food, disasters, the senses, STS, political economy or Japan. Click here for more information on our graduate program. You can get sense of the courses I teach from the syllabi below. 

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Political Economy (graduate level)

Anthropological approaches to political economy tend to see economic activity as part of an interlocking system in a larger fabric of society that responds to questions of politics, kinship, ethnicity, colonial rule, the law and war. This seminar seeks to understand how economic phenomena are understood and embedded in society with an emphasis on capitalism.
​Syllabus here

East Asia in Motion

This course covers contemporary themes in the anthropology of East Asia, including topics such as family, intimacy, economic transformation, the environment, popular culture and the body.
Syllabus here 

Tasting Food:
​Politics, Science and the Senses

What are the processes that underlie the act of eating and tasting food? How does food become a sensual and linguistic experience, how is it classified and how does food arrive before us?
​Syllabus here

Introduction to
​Ethnographic Methods

A hands-on introduction to the methods anthropologists use to collect ethnographic data. The course examines how the methods of anthropology have adapted alongside theoretical innovations in the discipline.
​​Syllabus here

History of Anthropology, part II (graduate level)

Global Systems and Processes: An Introduction

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