Teaching philosophy
Drawing on my background as a cultural geographer, my primary aim as an instructor is to facilitate relations between diverse students to transform otherwise mundane classroom infrastructure into places of meaning. To achieve this, I draw on key principles of critical pedagogy to empower students’ unique experiences, encouraging pupils to draw on each other to learn and expand on content to develop relational (e.g., empathy, reciprocity, teamwork) and practical (e.g., public speaking, writing, problem solving) skills.
Experience
University of Ottawa (2022-Present)
*Selected Topics in Human Rights: Transnational Repression, forthcoming Winter 2026
*Methodological and Theoretical Approaches in Geography and Environmental Studies, Winter 2025
*Global Studies, Citizenship and Development, Winter 2024
*Foundations of Social and Political Thought: Classical Liberalism and Socialism, Winter 2024
*International Organizations and Global Governance, Fall 2023
*Qualitative Analysis, Fall 2023
*Migration, Mobility, Borders and Citizenship, Winter 2023
*Ethnographer’s Magic: Reading and Writing Anthropology, Winter 2023
*Qualitative Research Methods and Techniques for Doing Fieldwork in International Development, Fall 2022
*Social Sciences and Research, Fall 2022
University of Rwanda (2022)
*Seminar in Qualitative Research Methods
McGill University (2019-2021)
*Course Design
*Graduate Teaching
*Geography of Development, Teaching Assistant
*Global Environmental Challenges in Development, Teaching Assistant
*Political Geography, Teaching Assistant
*Disaster and Development, Teaching Assistant
Université de Montréal (2020)
*Immigration, Integration and Diversity in the Labor Market, Invited Faculty
Universidad del Pacífico (2019)
*Migration and Development
Newton College (2017-2019)
*Environmental Systems and Societies
*Geography
MEF International School (2012-2016)
*Geography
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