Teaching Interests

Sociocultural anthropology, African Diaspora, African and indigenous peoples' interrelations, ethnohistory, ethnographic research methods, race and ethnicity, sociolinguistics, Caribbean cultures.

Courses Taught

University of Central Florida

1999- Present General Anthropology (ANT 2000)

Cultural Anthropology (ANT 2410)

Peoples of the World (ANT 3212)

Black/Seminole Relations (ANT 3316)

Anthropology of Diaspora (ANT 3319)

Caribbean Cultures (ANT 3340)

Language and Culture (ANT 3640)

Ethnographic Field Methods (ANT 3802)

Language, Culture and Pedagogy (ANT 3930H: Honors Interdisciplinary Seminar, with M. Lue)

Other Universities

University of Texas at Austin

2000-2001 Post-doctoral Fellow. Africans and Native Americans in the Southeastern U.S . (ANT 324L) and Introduction to African American Culture (AFR 301)

University of Florida

1998 Teaching Assistant. Course: Cultural Diversity in the United States . Guest lecture: “The Impact of the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. and the Caribbean ”

Capital University

1991-93 Cultural Pluralism in American Society; Fundamentals of Learning and Development