Teaching

I have extensive experience as both instructor and teaching assistant. In my 7 years at the University of California San Diego, I led classes of 16-20 students in courses such as ‘Health and Illness in Contemporary Society’, ‘Medical Sociology’, and ‘Genetics and Society’. In all of these courses, I foreground the relationship between factors such as public health policy, health systems, scientific knowledge and the political economy of medicine, with health. As a sociologist and scholar of global health, I push my students to think globally, transnationally and comparatively by exposing them to different health systems and cultures around the world, while critically analyzing the role of multilateral organizations in shaping global health concerns. Additionally, I emphasize the historicizing and provincializing of concepts such as ‘health’ and ‘medicine’ in my teaching, while underlining relationality in the production of knowledge. These core practices represent my commitment to gradually decolonizing knowledge and teaching in higher education. A brief teaching profile and sample syllabi are provided below.

Research and Teaching Areas:

Sociology of Science, Knowledge and Technology

Medical Sociology

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

History of Medicine

Southeast Asian Studies

Teaching and Mentoring Experience (UCSD):

August 2023 – September 2023: Instructor of record for Local Concerns, Global Problems (SOCI 111)

• Designed syllabus for undergraduate course.

• Prepared lecture slides and assignments for undergraduate students.

• Lectured and graded for course.

April 2023 – June 2023: Instructor of record for Sociology of Science (SOCI 168E)

• Designed syllabus for undergraduate course.

• Prepared lecture slides and assignments for undergraduate students.

• Lectured and graded for course.

September 2018 – March 2023: Teaching Assistant for Department of Sociology, University of California San Diego.

• Led sections for courses such as Medical Sociology, Health and Illness in Society, Genetics and Society, Sociological Theory, Sociology of Law, Sociology or Race and Ethnicity and Introduction to Sociology.

September 2019 – June 2021; January 2024 – June 2024: Teaching Assistant for Making of the Modern World College Undergraduate Writing Program, Eleanor Roosevelt College, University of California San Diego.

• Led sections in academic writing courses for freshmen and transfer students.

January 2023 – March 2023: Graduate Student mentor for the Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program.

• Co-developed 3 undergraduate student proposal projects related to the epidemiology of Asian Diabetes.

• Showed undergraduate students how to develop proposals to submit to funding agencies.

Sample Syllabi