Recent Courses.
Kozi za Hivi Karibuni. ​
​(Spring 2018)

​​Swarthmore College

• Sociolinguistics II: Deviance, Dystopia, and Democracy

**Fieldtrips: (1) Black Lives Matter Action Week documentary screening and community discussion; (2) Visit to Kelly Writers House for a community reading & discussion of storytelling for social change; (3) Visit to Friends Historical Library to examine antislavery discourses in archived Quaker materials and objects.  

• Language Learning: Science, Ethnography, Pedagogy

**Invited Author: Uju Anya (Pennsylvania State University), author of Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning.

AfroLatinx Podcast
3-episode podcast & interactive bilingual website
​created with seminar students (Spring 2017)

Previous Courses. Kozi za Zamani.

Swarthmore College

• Fall 2017 - Introduction to Linguistics (discourse-functional approach) 
• Fall 2017 - Introduction to Sociolinguistics: Language, Culture, and Society ​(semiotic landscapes, interactional sociolinguistics)

**Fieldtrip: Walking tour of downtown Philadelphia Mural Arts and Monument Lab

• Fall 2017 - Swahili I (communicative approach to learning conversation in Swahili), with E. Ndeto

• Spring 2017 - Language and Identity in the African Experience: From Kenya to Mexico - Listen to student podcast, AFROLATINX PODCAST™ here.

​**Fieldtrip: Art gallery lecture & neighborhood walking tour at Taller Puertorriqueño community center in North Philadelphia.

• Spring 2017 - Languages of Fear, Racism, and Zombies - See student online exhibit, [ZOMBIES REIMAGINED] here.

**Joint classes: (1) With Film & Media Studies course on Horror to discuss impact of Night of the Living Dead, ​(2) With Introduction to Linguistics at Haverford College to discuss how linguists and linguistics can mitigate and dismantle racism.
**Fieldtrip: Behind-the-scenes tour of Samuel G. Morton Collection at the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

#LanguageStory Student Video Projects
(Introduction to Sociolinguistics, Fall 2014)

Natalia Choi - Rhythm N' Motion N' Talk.

Mayank Agrawal - The Bilingual Experience.

• Fall 2016 - Linguistic Anthropology/Anthropological Linguistics (with K. David Harrison) 

​**Themes: Endangered languages, Linguistic Anthropology for social change

• Fall 2016 - Introduction to Sociolinguistics: Language, Culture, and Society

**Themes: Linguistic Landscapes in Cities, Arts, and Popular Culture; Election 2016; Community-building in Philadelphia
**Fieldtrip: Walking tour of downtown Philadelphia Mural Arts; Serenity House and Community Center in North Philadelphia

• Spring 2016 - Languages of Fear, Racism, and Zombies - See student online exhibit, [ZOMBIES REIMAGINED] here.

​​​**Fieldtrips: (1) Movie theater showing of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies; (2) Behind-the-scenes tour of Samuel G. Morton Collection at the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

• Fall 2015 - Introduction to Sociolinguistics: Language, Culture, and Society                                                                                      

**Themes: Linguistic Landscapes in Cities, Arts, and Popular Culture
**Fieldtrip: Walking tour of downtown Philadelphia Mural Arts

• Fall 2015 - Structure of Swahili 

​**Invited Authors: Elaine Mshomba (University of Pennsylvania); Deo Ngonyani (Michigan State University)

• Spring 2015 - Language and Identity in the African Experience: From Kenya to Mexico - Course hashtag #LING30

**Fieldtrip: Docent tour of African American Museum of Philadelphia

• Fall 2014 - Introduction to Sociolinguistics: Language, Culture, and Society -  See student #languagestory final projects!

**Themes: #BlackTwitter, Constructed Languages, and Fandoms

• Fall 2014 - Directed Reading in Swahili 

Bess Cohen - Language in Theatre.

Miranda Stewart - The Speech of Swing: (Non)Verbal Communication, Gender, and the Past Tense in a Community of Swing Dancers.

Chandrea Peng - "You're, Like, a Feminist": Group Identity at a Women's College.

Middlebury College

• Spring 2013, Fall, 2013 - Multilingualism and Second Language Acquisition in Africa 

• Fall 2013 - Language Learning in Africana Studies: From Colonial to Global  

• Fall 2013 - Advanced Swahili 

Michigan State University

• Spring 2010, Fall 2009 - Pedagogical English Grammar for English Teachers 

• Spring 2009 - Student Leadership Training: Global Perspectives 

• Spring 2008 - Beginning Swahili II