“My role is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes that have been built up at a certain moment in history…To change something in the minds of people—that is the role of an intellectual.” — Michel Foucault
“This was the most living part of studying: this spirit of re-creation, which enabled encyclopedic items of information to be assimilated and fused them into a flame burning with new individual life” — Antonio Gramsci
Most of what I teach are interdisciplinary seminars at some dynamic intersection of disability studies, STS, and medical anthropology. If you are a prospective student, you should be aware that I do not lecture; I do not find it productive. Here’s an article about one of my classes that gives you a sense of my teaching style.
Recent courses include:
Bodies at Work: Disability and Capitalism
Cripping Technoscience
Disability and Sexuality: Politics of Desire and Desirability
Anthropology of Disability
Race and Medicine
Contact: Contagion, Coloniality, Capital