International engagement has been at the core of my education and career, and I strive to make global learning accessible and transformative for students of all kinds. As a lecturer at UCLA’s International Institute, I teach the next generation of global leaders to think across geographies, scales, and disciplines in tackling the challenges facing our society.

As the Graduate Program Director at Columbia University’s Committee on Global Thought, I guided students in selecting courses to reflect their interests and goals, conceptualizing and carrying out independent research, and preparing for careers without borders.

In collaboration with the University of California and a team of faculty in four countries, I designed programming, courses, and hands on research for two new programs: the Mediterranean Politics, Food & Culture semester program and the Food Study Field Study intensive summer workshop.

My courses connect theory to practice, combine collaborative and independent work, and rely on experiential learning to allow students to pursue the questions or explore the worlds that interest them most. My current courses include:

University of California, Los Angeles

Labor in Food Systems

Global Food Worlds

Columbia University, Committee on Global Thought

M.A. Research Seminar

Global Food Worlds

Local/Global Worlds: Place-Based Investigations of an Interconnected World

University of California, Santa Cruz

Anthropology of Food (undergraduate)

The Hands that Feed Us: Labor in Food Systems

University of California Education Abroad Programs

Unmaking the Mediterranean: Nationalism and Nation-states

Workshop in Ethnography

University of the Pacific

Anthropology of Food (graduate)