Teaching

I currently teach the following courses:

Popular Culture (Year 1)
Contemporary Social Theory (Year 2)
Culture, Power and Communication (Year 3)
Sociology and Politics of Education (Year 3)
Undergraduate Dissertation (Year 3)
Social Theory and Social Change (MA)

Past courses include:


Classical Social Theory
Contemporary Society (current issues in Sociology)
Doing Sociology (introduction to Sociology)
Sociological Imagination (introduction to Sociology)
Knowledge, Meaning and Morality (sociology of science)
Qualitative Research
Situated Knowledges (philosophy of social science)

In my capacity as international teaching fellow and consultant in Central Asia, I have taught:


Thinking through 'the Nation': Concepts and Maps of Society in Social Theory (Nationhood and Narrative Summer School, 'Knowing the Nation: National Narratives and Intellectual Practice', Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, 2008)

Situated Knowledge: Critical Explorations into the Philosophy and Sociology of Knowledge (Nationhood and Narrative Summer School, 'Knowing the Nation: National Narratives and Intellectual Practice', Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, 2007)

Research Design (Central Asia Training Initiative, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 2007)


Culture and Power: Understanding Social Re/Production (Sociology Summer School, Central Asia Resource Center, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2005)

Advanced Sociological Theory (Sociology Winter School, Regional Seminar for Excellence in Training, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 2004)

Rethinking classical social theory in Central Asian Sociology (Central Asian Summer University, 'Sociological Analysis: Linking Theory and Method', OSI Higher Education Support Program, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2003)