My teaching philosophy is informed by the liberal arts tradition, which emphasize a person’s growth and transformation to become an informed, engaged, and ethically conscious member of society. While I share the important goal of helping my students develop their skills for the labor market, I find it more important that they cultivate a habit of critical thinking, foster their own sense of civic responsibility, and be inspired to bring about transformative changes. Ours is an increasingly complex world with problems that demand collective efforts across communities, generations, and geographical borders. My goal as a teacher is to best prepare students to rise to those challenges.
Higher education institutions in the US and elsewhere remain an exclusive and exclusionary space, where folks from various minority backgrounds struggle to feel welcome and appreciated. I am committed to making my classroom a welcoming space where all students, especially those who are intimidated by the traditional economic curricula, feel that they fully belong and can freely explore their academic potentials.
Current Courses
Fall 2024
- ECON 101: Ten things they don’t tell you about the market - An Introduction to Microeconomics
Winter 2024
ECON 102: The future of work, inequality and the planet - An Introduction to Macroeconomics
ECON 103: Conversation with the ghost of Marx - An introduction to Marxist Political Economics
Advanced-Topic Courses
Marxist Feminist Thought and Social Reproduction Theory
Economics of Identity and Discrimination/ Queer Economics
Political Economy of A.I. and Platform Capitalism
Political Economy of the Environment
Game Theory