I teach about culture, work, gender, family, childhood and qualitative methods.  

​Most of these have been undergraduate and graduate-level courses at the University of Virginia.

 

In Fall 2014, I also taught on the Semester-at-Sea "Atlantic exploration" voyage (see picture below). 

 

Contact me for syllabi for any of the following:

Graduate

• Graduate Research Workshop (article-writing course)

• Sociology of Culture.

• Qualitative Methods.

• Sociology of Gender.

• Sociology of the Family.

 
Undergraduate

• Sociology of Emotions.

• Pavilion Seminar: Compassion, Culture and Inequality.

• Sociology of the Family.

• Sociology of Childhood.

• Love, Sex and Sociology.

• Special Topics in Work:  The Ethics of Insecurity.

• Care, Inequality and the Market.

• USEM (first year seminar):  Fear, Risk and Modernity:  The Sociology of Safety.