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Teaching

     My teaching draws upon my interdisciplinary expertise in global migration, race and ethnicity, economic sociology, qualitative methods and China studies. My pedagogy is deeply informed by the positionalities I have occupied—as a racial minority and international student in Western educational systems. These experiences exposed the limitations of dominant curricula to meaningfully reflect the lived realities of diverse communities. Furthermore, teaching during a period defined by the rise of AI has further deepened my awareness of the challenges faced by education to preserve a space for critical thought, creativity, and reflection.

In response to these challenges, my pedagogical approach is anchored in three key principles:  1) expanding the boundaries of the curriculum through a critical pedagogy that centers the lived experiences of marginalized communities; 2) using sociology as a lens to cultivate what anthropologist Xiang Biao (2021) describes as an awareness of “the nearby”—the everyday spaces where difference is routinely encountered, negotiated, and often overlooked; 3)  employing diverse forms of assessment to support a wide range of learning styles and needs.

Teaching Experiences

Course Instructor

Sociology Department, University of Toronto Tri-Campus

SOC254 Intermediate Qualitative Methods (Summer 2022)

Overall Teaching Evaluation Score: 4.7 out of 5 (departmental average score: 4.1)

Guest Lecturer

Sociology Department, University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus

SOCC34 Migrations and Transnationalism (Fall 2023)

SOC205 Urban Sociology (Summer 2016)

Teaching Assistant

Sociology Department, University of Toronto Tri-Campus

  • Introductory Courses

SOC100 Introduction to Sociology (Fall 2023/2018)

SOC204 Introduction to Qualitative Methods (Fall 2022, Summer 2021)

SOC221 The Logic of Social Inquiry (Fall 2015/2017)

SOCB47 Social Inequality (Winter 2024/2021)

  • Globalization, Immigration, Race/Ethnicity/Indigeneity

SOC236 Globalization (Winter 2018)

SOC311 Immigration and Race Relations in Canada (Summer 2023/2024)

SOC348 Indigenous Rights, Resistance & Resurgence (Winter 2021)

SOC332 Race & Ethnicity in Canada (Winter 2019)

SOC370 Immigration and Employment (Summer 2020)

SOC455 Comparative Indigenous Politics (Winter 2019)

  • Political Sociology

SOCC04 Social Movements (Winter 2020/2017)

SOCB30 Political Sociology (Winter 2019)

  • Asian Studies

C450 Asian Pathways Research Practicum (Winter 2019)