Recent Courses.
Kozi za Hivi Karibuni. ​
(Spring 2020 & Fall 2020)

​​Santa Monica College
  • Introduction to Linguistics (LING1)

Through this course, students learn about the mechanics of language, by engaging:
  • their personal beliefs about language
  • stories of people who use oral, written, tactile, signed languages, and other communicative modalities around the world
  • original scholarly research 
  • interdisciplinary connections to language and linguistics, including with public history, the arts, media, endangered languages, computer science, and action on climate change 

Here's a link to the "liquid" online syllabus for the course. 

Previous Courses. Kozi za Zamani.

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)