Teaching is core to my identity as a scholar. I see teaching as an opportunity to prepare students to think sociologically about the overlapping structures of inequality that shape their lives, as well as activating their thinking towards exploring ways of resisting and transforming these structures. In 2022, I received the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Sociology Department’s Graduate Student Teaching Award. In 2023, I was a SAGE Publishing Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award winner.
Advising students is another critical component of my work as a teacher scholar. In 2024, I received the University of Chicago’s Division of the Social Sciences Award for Excellence in MA Advising and Mentoring. The full list of students I have formally advised is on my C.V.