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Sociology 370: Race, Indigeneity, and Punishment

Providence College (Fall 2025, Fall 2026)

In this course,we study punishment through a sociological lens by examining the relationship between race, settler colonialism, and punishment in the United States. Students explore the historical, political, and structural processes shaping criminalization, incarceration, and their consequences, paying particular attention to the experiences of Indigenous and Black communities. Together, we use the criminal legal system as a lens to consider sociological themes like race, inequality, resistance, and justice. We also enlist theoretical and empirical sociological research and analyses that paint a clear and convincing picture that mass punishment is not just a solution to a criminal justice problem but is a sociological problem itself.  

Student-created podcast project

Sociology 101: Introductory Sociology

Providence College (Spring 2026)

This course will teaches students to think like a sociologist by introducing them to the academic discipline of sociology. What does it mean to think sociologically? It means seeing ourselves and others as shaped by the cultures and social forces of our time. Sociology helps us understand why people do what they do in everyday life, why they believe the things they believe, and why they have the hopes and aspirations they hold for themselves and others. It does this by analyzing the social contexts in which people’s lives are embedded. Sociology is also concerned with making sense of the consequences of action. Throughout the semester, we will learn to look for social patterns and to question the inevitability of much of what we observe about the world.   

TEACHING ASSISTANT

The Social World

Columbia University (Fall 2019, Spring 2020)