Selected Courses
Parsons School of Design, The New School (2025-)
Design Research Capstone: How can we explore and apply methods from the evolving field of design research, identifying an area in need of innovation and opportunities for intervention in that area?
Ethnography and Design: How can deep observation provided unexpected knowledge that allows designers to imagine places that are thoughtfully enhanced or radically new? What kinds of methods used in the disciplines of human ethnography, human centered design and other research fields can designers use to better understand how people relate to environments in a variety of contexts?
Anthropology and Textiles: What is the relationship between humankind and textile creation? What is the relationship between society and material culture?
Barnard College, Columbia University Summer Pre-College NextGen Leadership Institute (2023-)
Wall Street and the Public Culture of Finance: How is Wall Street imagined as a site of democracy, capitalism, and the pursuit of the American Dream? How is it also imagined as a place of immorality, filled with greedy global elite male financiers taking advantage of the “99 percent”? How does culture shape these varied understandings?
Leadership in Action Lecture: How can we deconstruct and reconstruct our understanding of social change leadership? How can we challenge the traditional-single, heroic approach to leadership that emphasizes the “leader-follower” and develop collective leadership models that foster collaboration to achieve a shared purpose?
NYU School of Professional Studies, Human Capital Management Department (2020-24)
Organization Theory and Practice: What are the major theoretical frameworks and debates about organizations in the social sciences? How can we use the social sciences to better understand and address the problems facing today’s complex organizations?
University of Copenhagen Department of Anthropology (2017-19)
Introduction to Business and Organizational Anthropology: What is business, organizational, design and digital anthropology? What are the key research methods and approaches used? What key problems can business anthropology address and solve?
Markets, Power, and Global Cities: How are global cities such as NYC, London, Tokyo, and Shanghai, central interconnected nodes in the global economy, with specialized services and high concentrations of finance and information flows? How can we locate and ethnographically study the growing power and influence of transnational professionals located in such cities whose primary work is to facilitate those flows of knowledge, capital and services across organizational and national borders?
New York University Department of Social and Cultural Analysis (2012-2017)
Gender, Sexuality and Performance in the City: How are artists, scientists, activists, environmentalists, planners, architects, city officials and others developing collaborative projects that engage urban problems including social inequality and climate change? How do these actors use city spaces (streets, buildings, parks) as sites for research, experimentation, and making change?
Emerging Geographies of Governance, Development, and Mainstream Feminism: How can we study global gendered governance from above, below, the margins, and across borders? How are gender experts - working within and across corporations, think-tanks, NGOs, and the State - governing gender relations? And how is it that mainstream feminism has become part of gendered governance?
Georgetown University Department of Anthropology (2005-2012)
Anthropology of Work: How are financial, environmental, health and other global crises transforming the material and symbolic landscapes of work in the United States and throughout the world? In what ways are new technologies reshaping the culture, social and spatial structure of work? And what role can anthropologists play in creating more human-centric, inclusive, resilient, healthy, and sustainable work environments that support the evolving workplace culture of today?