Teaching Philosophy

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 project that teaches students how to create an ArcGIS storymap and use audio and visual storytelling technologies. In advanced courses, I teach students how to analyze and synthesize primary sources. In all of my courses, I bring my decades-long experience as a writing enrichment tutor to train my students in the craft of writing.

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Teaching Experience

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, Carleton College (2026-2027)

• The Qur'an
• Imagining Islam
• Religion and Masculinity
• Religion, Madness, and the Self
• Religion and Ecology

Lecturer of Religion, Vanderbilt University (2025-2026)

• Introduction to Islam

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, Macalester College (2023-2025) 

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

Lecturer, University of Minnesota (2025) 

• Exploring the Qur’an

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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