Teaching

Versatile and effective educator with outstanding record of developing and implementing innovative curricula in multicultural settings. Recognized by colleagues and students for excellence in instruction style and sincere care. Seasoned interdisciplinary teacher at both graduate and undergraduate levels in anthropology, sociology, politics, development studies, gender, and African studies. Accomplished researcher and ethnographic film maker on gender, traditional leadership, democratization, youth identities, voluntary associations, urban life, ritual and historical anthropology.

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

This course introduces you to the discipline of sociocultural anthropology through a variety of core themes and issues anthropologists frequently deal with. As an introductory course, it is far from exhaustive but the specially selected topics, debates and subfields within the discipline are highlighted in ways that demonstrate the credentials of anthropology as a ‘holistic’ science.

Ethnographic Research Methods

"Ethnographic Methods" is designed in a way that combines seminars and field immersion in order to give students in-depth exposure to core techniques on research design, how to use participant observation, interviewing techniques, and skills on how to manage the research process.

Anthropology of Religion

In many parts of the world, many people inhabit a world full of spirits, witches, mischievous devils, ancestors, malevolent and benign forces, gods and angels – entities that are believed to play powerful roles in human affairs. The anthropological study of religion is an attempt to render these worlds comprehensible to outsiders.

Visual Anthropology

Visual anthropology is a sub-discipline that explores the broad range of “things” made to be seen. It explores both film and photography as genres of representing “reality”, anthropological knowledge and cultural processes. It also tackles the questions raised by cross-cultural representation.

Anthropology of Human Rights

This course critically examines the salience of human rights discourse and practices in the contemporary world, anthropologists’ engagements with the so-called tensions between universalism and relativism, the proliferation of charters of rights and the ways in which rights discourses are expressed in communities by various constituencies including women and children, youth, ethnic & sexual minorities, religious advocates, indigenous peoples etc.

Gender & Intersectionality

This course examines key cases of gender-based oppression, empowerment and development efforts at the global level, as well as the complex ways in which gender, empowerment and agency and sociocultural identities and positionalities intersect to create challenges and opportunities for community engagement in participatory development.

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