Teaching

Troublemakers: Framing Outsiders in Modern-European History

Unruly, dangerous, nervous, hysterical, wayward,  incorrigible—throughout history, labels like these have been used to provide a pretext for state and civil institutions to normalize,  accuse, banish, imprison, exclude, reform, exile, colonize, and reintegrate figures on the margins of the social order. This course introduces students to the history of nineteenth-century Europe through the figure of the social outsider. Each week, students will engage with a new form of otherness and its social construction in order to study broader historical developments. We will pay special attention to the ways in which the lives of individuals intersect with architecture and ask how historical actors both police and resist spatial transformation. Covering England, France, and the German territories as well as imperial peripheries, this course moves chronologically through epochal upheavals in modern European history from the Enlightenment to the French Revolution to colonial revolts. Key ideas to be discussed include: the interplay of religion, gender, sexuality, and nationalism; the relation between reform, repression, and resistance; dynamics of modernization (e.g. welfare, citizenship) across micro and macro levels; and different forms of political participation. 

Seminar to be taught at Emory University in Spring 2026

Prison State Initiative

The Prison Teaching Initiative seeks to bridge Princeton University’s academic and service-driven missions by providing the highest-quality postsecondary education to incarcerated students in New Jersey; offering Princeton University graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and staff innovative, evidence-based pedagogy training and the chance to diversify their teaching portfolios through intensive classroom experience; and fostering a robust campus dialogue on mass incarceration and its relationship to systemic inequalities in access to education.

Role: Humanities Tutor

An Introduction to the History of Architecture

A survey of architectural history, from ancient Egypt to contemporary America, that includes comparative material from around the world. This course stresses a critical approach to architecture through the analysis of context, expressive content, function, structure, style, building technology, and theory. Discussion will focus on key monuments and readings that have shaped the history of architecture.

Role: Head Teaching Assistant