Teaching

Teaching is core to my intellectual identity. I currently teach at Warren Wilson College, a small liberal arts college outside of Asheville, North Carolina (and my alma mater). I have a range of teaching experience, much of it through prison education programs in Missouri and North Carolina. In 2023 and 2024, I taught for Washington University’s Prison Education Project (PEP) at two state prisons in Missouri. In 2025, I taught at the Buncombe County Correctional Facility through University of North Carolina Asheville, and at the Swannanoa Women’s Correctional Center through Asheville-Buncombe Community College. 

Across teaching contexts, I use class materials as a lens to connect students' individual experiences with the broader organizations and institutions that structure their daily lives. Whether in private liberal arts classrooms or prison classrooms, I work to develop students’ critical thinking skills, particularly encouraging connection between their own biographies and social trends and living history. My approach emphasizes dialogic learning and cultivating students’ authentic curiosity. My sustained and ongoing experience teaching in carceral contexts have led me to a low-tech vision of teaching that prioritizes connection and interaction over technological innovation. My goal as an educator is to meet students where they are at and to provoke curiosity which outlives our shared classroom space. 

I have taught Introduction to Sociology, Medical Sociology, and Gender and the Prison System. I am positioned to teach courses in crime and punishment, social theory, political sociology, and the sociology of health and medicine.