Teaching Experience

Teaching is integral to my scholarship. My courses emphasize engagement with primary source materials, including textual and audio-visiual sources, experential learning, and community engagement. In introductory level courses, I have integrated a digital humanities component that teaches students how to use digital mapping and storytelling skills. In advanced courses, I teach students how to analyze and synthesize primary sources. In addition to teaching, I have ample experience as a middle and high school level teacher, writing and test prep tutor, and college admisisons counselor.

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Visiting Assistant Professor at Macalester College (2023-present) 

• Introduction to Islamic Mysticism
• The Qur’an and the Prophet
• Islam in America
• Religion and Masculinity
• Comparative Muslim Cultures
• The Middle East through Film

Teaching Fellow (2017-2023)

• Religion at Emory (Emory University)
• Introduction to Religion (Emory University)
• The Sufi Way in South Asia (Emory University)
• The Qur’an (Emory University)
• Bodies and Sexualities in the Medieval Midde East (Harvard University)

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Teaching Philosophy

As a teacher, I see my role as animating perennial questions of religion, self, and society and demonstrating the ambiguityat the heart of these questions. I encourage students to learn how to question and be comfortable with bewilderment. I aim to foster curiosity and employ my students with the analytic tools to critically engage with the world in and out of the classroom.