These are some of the courses I have designed and taught since 2019

This course focuses on racial justice through the lens of citizenship and belonging. In this course students will examine how race serves as an axis through which Americans' inclusion or exclusion is moderated. Through readings that show the history of racial inequality, as well as efforts to achieve racial equity in the criminal justice system and other areas, students will be able to assess the mechanisms that make it possible for racism to prevail in American society. Students will explore topics such as the school-to-prison pipeline, mass incarceration, settler colonialism, and will be exposed to racial inequality as it affects Black Americans, Asians, racialized Latinxs, and American Indians.

In this course students will examine different methods used in sociological research, with an emphasis in the following areas: Ethical research practices, connecting theory and research, study design, and quantitative and qualitative literacy. Students will engage in identifying research questions, conceptualizing and measuring variables, and sampling. They will also develop competencies in research proposal writing.

In this class students will learn to examine a range of issues, situations, and approaches, and understand how and why they become "problems" in society. By using a sociological lens, and through the use of lectures, discussions, assessments, and interactive inŝclass exercises, students will understand the
causes and consequences of contemporary social inequalities based on race, class, gender, age, place, and legal status, among others. In this course we will also focus on societyős institutions, such as schools, the criminal justice system, the immigration industrial system, and healthcare, to examine societyős
problems and how they are perpetuated.

First-generation college student is a term for the increasing numbers of students who are first in their  families to attend college. As colleges have been increasingly framed as the primary mechanism for social and economic upward mobility, college attendance has reached historic highs for nearly every  group in society, including for historically marginalized communities. This has created increasingly  diverse campuses and it has increasingly bound colleges to broader patterns of inequality. In this course students will examine the racial and economic politics facing first-generation college students, as  well as the structural inequalities shaping college and its promises of social and economic mobility.

Looking at data trends on the growth of Latinx communities in the Southeast, students will explore how Latinxs are shaping the South, and how the South is shaping their experiences in education, health, the labor force, religion, and culture. Through a look at the history of Latinx settlement in Southeastern states,
students will analyze themes of identity, immigration, intersectionality, civil rights, and race relations. This course will ask students to identify the needs of Latinx communities in the Southeast, and to contribute to the development of a resource guide to be used in fostering the inclusion of domestic and international Latinx arrivals, and coalition building between long-term Southern residents and Latinx
newcomers.

In this course students will examine immigrants' lived experiences in the U.S., and learn about the legal systems immigrants must navigate and their experiences with incorporation into different areas of society. Students will be exposed to current debates in the field of immigration and engage with theories of immigration, immigration policies, and other laws that shape immigrants' lives. This course will facilitate an understanding of how communities respond to practices that curtail immigrants' basic rights as they navigate intersecting structures of power in American society. Students will be encouraged to look at local examples to make connections between policies, theories, and debates.