Text analysis & State making

These courses include the comparative/historical development of national education systems as well as introductory courses in archival text analysis. Here are couple draft working ideas that shows my early conceptualization of these courses.

Gender and Macro-sociological Theory

What's the relationship between education and society? Between education and development? Why do we have to go to school? How does gender operate in education over and beyond reproducing inequality? I help to engage students in new and expansive thinking with questions of perennial sociological and intellectual significance. I approach social theory and its interrogation with empirical research as an interpretative exercise of imagination and expression.

Research Design 

I work closely with students from the initial inception of a research topic to the presentation of a fully developed scholarly paper. I help teach topics related to the research process as well as the writing of a compelling, persuasive, and substantive research paper. I approach empirical research as just one mode of knowledge creation and communication, which, though having a set of formal guidelines, is nonetheless a creative process when done authentically.