My approach draws upon training in experiential learning, service learning, problem-based learning, and reflective activities that encourage students to evaluate critically and adapt and extend concepts in light of their own interests, background and contexts. I reflected on teaching the millennium generation in this alumni magazine profile, “Are We Reading?” Milton Magazine. Spring 2009.
Teaching
Courses Taught
International Honors Program/World Learning – Cities in the 21st Century Program (overseas in Brazil, South Africa, Vietnam)
Culture and Society of World Cities
Contemporary Urban Issues
University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY)
Inequality and Public Policy
Politics and Policy
Immigrant Integration: Politics and Policy
Politics of Migration and Membership
Social Capital and Public Policy
Introduction to Bureaucratic Politics
Introduction to Policy Analysis
Research and Writing I & II
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Mount Holyoke College
Immigrant Niches, Networks and Public Policy
Yale University (Teaching Assistant)
Introduction to U.S. Government
Politics and the Black American
New Haven: The Problem of Change in the American City
Resources
Institute for Teaching, Learning and Academic Leadership, University at Albany
Difficult Dialogues (a Ford Foundation project on teaching public controversies)