Teaching

Teaching is genuinely one of the most rewarding aspects of my experience as a scholar. My main teaching objective is to provide students with the tools to critically examine issues related to social inequality and racial disparities in health outcomes.

I am interested in teaching topics that are rooted in medical sociology, race and ethnicity, mental health, and the life course. So far, I have been an instructor for Inequalities of Society at the University of Kentucky, and I worked as a teaching assistant for several courses at the University of Memphis (Sociology of the South, Social Statistics, Culture and Society, and Senior Thesis). Additionally, I have provided six guest lectures on the topics of race, racial discrimination, health, and healthcare for several undergraduate courses (Sociology of Health and Illness, Gender and Mental Health, Inequalities in Society, Global Societies, and Medicine, Health, and Society) at the University Kentucky. While I enjoy these areas, I am also interested in teaching students about the general process of research and research methods. Currently, I am working with several undergraduate students at the University of Kentucky as the Research Program Coordinator for the Students Participating as Ambassadors of Research in Kentucky (SPARK) Program. I offer them training and mentorship as they complete research projects on a salient health disparity issue in their home community.

Furthermore, in my commitment to increasing diversity among faculty, I have attended the Compact for Faculty Diversity’s Institute on Teaching and Mentoring from 2015-2017 as a fellow of the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Doctoral Scholars Program.