Teaching

*Note to current students: these courses change from year to year, please make sure you have the most recent syllabus which can be found on our course D2L site.*

MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY (2013-present)

Religious Studies Courses

• RS 2030: Religion and Society (offered Fall 2018, Spring 2019)
• RS 3020: Comparative Religion
• RS 3030: Mapping Religious Diversity (offered Fall 2018)
• RS 3050: Rites of Passage
• RS 3600: Religion and Film  (offered Summer 2018, online)
• RS 4010: Global Christianity
  
• RS 4020: Jesus of Nazareth (offered Fall 2017)
• RS 4050: Judaism, Islam, Christianity (Western Religions)
• RS 4900: Seminar in Religious Studies

RS 4800: Directed Study Courses – available with special permission

• Religion and Science (Fall 2014)
•  Religion, Hybridity and Ancient Mythologies (Fall 2014)
• Historical Jesus (Spring 2014)
• Religion, Economics and Critical Theory (Spring 2015)
• Religion and the Body (Spring 2015)
• The Ante-Nicene Period in Christian History (Spring 2015)
• Religion, Identity, and Travel in Israel-Palestine (Summer 2015)
• Religion and Queer Theory (Fall 2015)
• Other

Master of Liberal Arts Program, College of Liberal Arts

• MALA 6010: Foundations of Liberal Arts – Identity (team taught course)
• MALA 6040: Thesis Research
• MALA 6070: American Religions

Graduate Student Supervisor

Chair: Keven Lewis, MALA student, College of Liberal Arts (2016-2018)

Women and Gender Studies Program

• WGST 2100: Introduction to Women’s Studies (offered Fall 2018, online)

Honor’s College

• UH 3000: Honor’s Lecture Series (presenter, Fall 2017)
• UH 4900: Honors Independent Study Projects:

Chair: Cheyenne Plott, “The Tennessean Jewish Perspective on Twenty-First Century Judaism, American Society, and the State of Israel” (2013-2014)

Chair: Melody Cook, “Young Single Adult Mormon Women in Tennessee: A Brief Ethnography” (2014-2015)

Second Reader: Jennifer Crow, “Mormon Feminist Activism and Ordain Women: Social Responses to Religious Norm Defection in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints” (project currently underway)

EMORY UNIVERSITY, CANDLER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY (2012-2013)

• M 698 001: What is A Christian?: Anthropologies of Global Christianity/ies
• SR 699-RK: Modern Christian Modalities: Anthropological, Sociological and Theological Methods (Directed Study)
• ES 663 CEE: Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding – co-instructor

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, DEPARTMENT FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION (2008-2012)

• RLG 200: The Phenomenon of Religion
• RLG 232: Religion and Film
• RLG 304: Language, Symbol and Self – co-instructor
• RLG 308: Religion and the City
• RLG 315: Rites of Passage

FORMAL TEACHING TRAINING

Participant, Teaching Against Islamophobia Workshop, American Academy of Religion and Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion (2018-2020)

Participant, Wabash Teaching and Learning Workshop for Pre-Tenure Religion Faculty at Colleges and Universities, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion (2015-2016)

Middle Tennessee State University, Learning, Teaching, and Innovative Technologies Center, Teaching Fellow (2013-2014)

Certificate of Distinction, THE500: Teaching in Higher Education, University of Toronto, Office for Teaching Advancement (Winter 2010)