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I am currently an assistant professor at Trent University. I teach various courses, including Introduction to Moral and Political Philosophy, Biomedical Ethics, and a fourth-year advanced seminar on Public Health Ethics.
I previously worked as a per-course instructor at Western University and Huron University College.
I was a graduate student program instructor at Western University’s Centre for Teaching and Learning, primarily to facilitate the Teaching Assistant Training Program (TATP). During my undergraduate and graduate degrees, I have worked extensively as a teaching assistant.
Click here to view my teaching dossier (last updated Jan 2024).
Teaching Positions and Experience:
Instructor Position(s):
Assistant Professor, Trent University.
Per-course instructor for Philosophy 2076G: Sex, Love and Friendship, Summers 2020 and 2021, at Huron University College (affiliate college at Western University), offered online.
Per-course instructor for Philosophy 2077G: Gender & Sexuality, Winter 2020 at Western University (main campus).
Teaching Assistant Training Program, Instructor, Centre for Teaching and Learning, Western University, 2018 - 2021
The Teaching Assistant Training Program (TATP) is designed for new and returning graduate students to help them learn how to approach their roles as TAs with pedagogically informed teaching practices. I have facilitated sessions on lesson design, marking practices, interpersonal communication, and others, for this program. I also facilitate ‘microteaching’, where participants deliver short 10-minute lessons and receive feedback on their teaching strategies and lesson design. In 2020, I worked with the TATP team at Western’s CTL to shift TATP online, helping to create asynchronous modules for participants.
I also assist the Centre for Teaching and Learning with other programs aimed towards graduate students, including the Advanced Training Program (APT) and Teaching in the Canadian Classroom (TCC).
Teaching Assistantships held at Western University:
PHIL 2062G Power, Privilege and Oppression, Winter 2019
PHIL 1305F: Questions of the Day, Fall 2018
Nominated for Society of Graduate Students’ Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award
PHIL 2077GF: Gender and Sexuality, Winter 2018
PHIL 2557F: Existentialism, Fall 2018
PHIL 1305G: Questions of the Day, Winter 2017
Nominated for Society of Graduate Students’ Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award
PHIL 2710F: Reproductive Ethics, Fall 2016
Additional teaching training:
American Association of Philosophy Teachers Workshop on Inclusive Pedagogy, August 2019
Certificate in University Teaching Program, The Centre for Teaching and Learning, Western University
Teaching Assistant Training Program, The Centre for Teaching and Learning, Western University, August 2016