Teaching

New York University, Department of Media, Culture, & Communication

  • Privacy & Media Technology (Instructor, 2013) An undergraduate lecture course posing philosophical, social, and legal inquiries into the impact of digital communications upon privacy, ethics, and its meanings to disparate communities, in order to prepare students to recognize, contextualize, and analyze ethical challenges created by new information technologies.

University of Washington, Department of Psychology

  • Neuroethics (Course Creator and Instructor, 2007). A graduate seminar on ethical issues arising from advancements in brain imaging technologies, psychopharmacology, pre-natal DNA screening, neural prosthetics, and other new technologies, including their impacts on vulnerable populations.
  • Current Reflections on Mirror Neurons (Co-Instructor, 2005). A neuropsychology graduate seminar on the neurological basis of action recognition and human empathy.
  • Form Perception (Co-Instructor, 2003) A graduate seminar on the cognitive and neural underpinnings of face and object recognition.
  • Academic Writing, Psychology Writing Clinic (Instructor, 2003-2005) Counseled over 150 students on organization, clarity, and style of article summaries, research papers, personal statements, and other APA psychology writing. Gave short talks to writing- intensive psychology classes. Authored style and formatting handouts.
  • Probability & Statistics (Teaching Assistant, 2002) Taught four 25-student quiz sections and lab sections per week, prepared lectures, wrote exam questions, graded exams and homework, held office hours.

University of Texas, Department of Linguistics

  • Language and the Brain (Teaching Assistant, 2000)
  • Language and Thought (Teaching Assistant, 1999)
  • Speech Science (Teaching Assistant, 1999)
  • Language and the Brain (Teaching Assistant, 1999)
  • Introduction to Language (Teaching Assistant, 1998)