Recent Courses.
Kozi za Hivi Karibuni. ​
(Spring 2023)

​​California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) ​
Fall 2024
  • Languages of the World
  • Black English Language and Culture
Course project - Greenwashing click for more information
Click for information about our course project on Greenwashing!

Previous Courses. Kozi za Zamani.

California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) 
2023-ongoing
  • Language and Identity - syllabus
  • Second Language Acquisition - syllabus
  • ​Language and Social Justice - syllabus
    • Our class produced an online project on greenwashing and green consumerism-- visit our site here!
  • Language, Culture, and Society - syllabus

Santa Monica College (Community College)
2019-2022
  • Introduction to Linguistics - in-person (on-ground)
  • Introduction to Linguistics - fully online/ asynchronous
    • 6-week intensive Winter course
    • 12-week late-start course
    • 16-week full semester course
    • Here's a link to my "liquid" online syllabus for the course!
Swarthmore College
2014-2017
  • Introduction to Sociolinguistics: Language, Culture, and Society ​
  • Introduction to Linguistics 
  • Language and Identity in the African Experience: From Kenya to Mexico -  Listen to student podcast, AFROLATINX PODCAST here.
  • Languages of Fear, Racism, and Zombies - See student online exhibit, [ZOMBIES REIMAGINED] here. 
  • Advanced Sociolinguistics: Deviance, Dystopia, and Democracy
  • Language Learning: Science, Ethnography, Pedagogy
  • Swahili I (communicative approach to learning conversation in Swahili), with E. Ndeto
  • Linguistic Anthropology/ Anthropological Linguistics, with K. David Harrison 
  • ​Structure of Swahili
Middlebury College
2013
  • Multilingualism and Second Language Acquisition in Africa 
  • Language Learning in Africana Studies: From Colonial to Global 
  • Advanced Swahili 

Michigan State University
2008-2010
  • Pedagogical English Grammar for English Teachers 
  • Student Leadership Training: Global Perspectives 
  • Beginning Swahili II ​
AfroLatinx Podcast
3-episode podcast & interactive bilingual website
​created with seminar students (Spring 2017)
#LanguageStory Student Video Projects
(Introduction to Sociolinguistics, Fall 2014)