Teaching
Teaching Philosophy
Broadening access to archaeology and higher education for students from diverse walks of life is imperative. In my teaching, I draw on universal design for learning (UDL) approaches to make lectures and assignments accessible to students with different backgrounds and learning styles. I emphasize writing, peer-editing, and re-writing in a supportive environment as a critical method for helping students become independent thinkers and scholars. I am also committed to mentoring African students and researchers, to build archaeological capacity in African institutions.
Courses Taught (Instructor of Record)
2025 GIS for Archaeology and Cultural Resource Management (Anthro C117). Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.
2024 Landscape Archaeology (Anth-UA 213). Department of Anthropology, New York University.
2022 Politics of African Archaeology and Heritage (R5B Freshman Writing Seminar). Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.
Other Courses I Can Teach
Cities, Past and Present · Trade and Exchange · Society and the Environment · Landscape Archaeology · The Anthropocene · GIS and Remote Sensing in Archaeology · African Archaeology · The Archaeology of the Indian Ocean · World Prehistory · Archaeological Method and Theory
Courses as a Teaching Assistant
2021 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (ESPM 72). Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley.
2015–2020 Introduction to Archaeology (Anth 2AC). Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley (Fall 2015, 2018, 2020).
2016–2018 Introduction to Near Eastern Art and Archaeology (MES 15). Department of Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley (Spring 2016, 2017, 2018).
Workshops, Training, and Mentorship
2025 Created QGIS for Archaeology modules for community-engaged research in Cambodia (UCLA, for Dr. Stephen Acabado).
2025 Workshop: “Detecting Archaeologically Significant Trees in Drone Imagery with Automated Methods.” Automated Methods in Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, New York University.
2024 Trained two MA students, two undergraduates, and two heritage officers in survey methods, GNSS, GIS, and ceramic analysis in Pangani and Zanzibar, Tanzania.
2024 Workshop: “Archaeology in the Fourth Dimension: CORONA, HEXAGON, and Other Multitemporal Satellite Imagery.” Archaeology of China graduate seminar, Cotsen Institute, UCLA.
2023 Workshop: “GIS and GNSS for Archaeology.” Department of Museums and Antiquities, Zanzibar, Tanzania.
2023 Trained two PhD and three undergraduate students in survey methods, GNSS, GIS, and ceramic analysis during fieldwork in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
2020 Supervised undergraduates in managing field data. PI: Lisa Maher (Fall 2020).
2019 Trained five students from the State University of Zanzibar in archaeological field methods, remote sensing, and ceramic analysis.
2018 Supervised undergraduates in soil analysis of sediments from Zanzibar, Tanzania. PI: Lisa Maher (Spring 2018).
2016-17 Supervised undergraduates doing structure-from-motion photogrammetry of Iron Age ceramics from Jordan. PI: Ben Porter (Fall 2016, 2017).
2015 Supervised undergraduates in a collaborative research project with the Musanda Royal Council of Tsimbupfe, South Africa. PI: Jun Sunseri (Spring 2015).