I graduated from college in Milan, Italy. Being the public Italian education system very different from the American one, I spent most of my college classes in overcrowded and poorly ventilated rooms where professors would enter the large auditorium, teach a two-hour long class, and leave without ever engaging with students. This occurred until I took my very first Sociology class. Working over hours, my sociology professor would conduct small weekly group workshops with students to have us practice sociology, not just learn about it from textbooks and lectures. I still remember how he would challenge us to “see” the concepts we were learning in class in our daily surroundings, asking us to bring photos of our neighborhoods to class to learn about the social construction of urban spaces, or encouraging us to reflect over how patriarchy is reinforced in magazine covers. That class taught me to look at the world with different eyes and inspired me to change other students’ perspectives like my professor had done with me.

In addition to a variety of courses I taught at USC as a Teaching Assistant, I had the amazing opportunity to teach my own sociology class at Pitzer College in the Fall of 2022, Religion in the U.S.: Power and Politics. You can download the class syllabus here.

In the past, I also enjoyed teaching Italian to non-Italian native speakers, both at Scripps College and in Alexandria, Egypt.