Teaching

Teaching Area & Focus

  • Anthropology: Sociocultural Anthropology; Linguistic Anthropology; Medical Anthropology; Anthropology of Science and Technology; Environmental Anthropology

  • Methods & Writing: Ethnographic Methods; Discourse and Narrative Analysis; Writing Ethnography

  • East Asian Studies (Korean Studies): East Asian STS; Contemporary Korean Culture and Language; Korean Popular Culture; Health and Medicine in East Asia

  • Other Topics: Language, Health, and Medicine; Food, Medicine, and Agriculture; Human-Plant Entanglements; Asian Medicines

Courses Offered & To Offer

  • Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology (undergraduate/graduate, introductory level)

  • Language and Medicine (undergraduate, 200-level)

  • The Rise of Biosovereignty (undergraduate, upper-level seminar)

  • Questioning “Translation” (graduate seminar)

  • Eating Plants and Animals (undergraduate)

  • Practices of Looking (undergraduate/graduate)

  • Politics of Life: Humans, Plants, and Others (graduate)

  • Korean Studies: Korean Popular Culture (Food and Media/Health and Media, undergraduate); Researching Korean Culture (undergraduate)

Invited Lectures

Doing Fieldwork During the Pandemic

Guest lectured at Culture, Society, Power (introductory class to Cultural Anthropology) (NYU)

“Sounds of Healing”

Guest lectured at Medical Anthropology (NYU), Language and Medicine in Practice (Colgate University, Ithaca College), and Language and Sense (Seoul National University)