My classroom is a space for curiosity, experimentation, and critical reflection. I invite students to look closely, ask questions that don’t have easy answers, and explore how knowledge is shaped visually, materially, and socially. I encourage a way of learning that values nuance over certainty, attention over speed, and creativity alongside critique.

I’ve taught students from a range of disciplines including anthropology, media studies, sociology, and journalism. Across all levels, I design my classes to be inclusive, rigorous, and intellectually generative, balancing conceptual depth with space for students to follow their own inquiries.

What I love most about teaching is seeing students begin to notice differently, to tune in to the details, patterns, and contradictions that shape the worlds around them. I especially enjoy helping them move beyond familiar ways of thinking and connect academic ideas with the textures of daily life. My goal isn’t to deliver fixed answers, but to create a classroom where students learn to observe carefully, question deeply, and express what matters to them with clarity, purpose, and imagination.

Courses:

  • Business Communication

  • Anthropological Research Methods - Digital Anthropology

  • Photojournalism

Guest Lecturer - Invited Talks:

  • Shanghai Jiaotong University. Name of the course: Sociocultural Perspectives on Inequality: gender, culture and technology. July 2025. Title of the lecture: Digital Desires: Gendered Bodies and Social Expectations in China’s Technological Society

  • University of California, Berkeley. Name of the course: Consumer Society and Culture. April 2025. Title of the lecture: Digital Consumption and Gen Z in China.

  • University of Amsterdam. Name of the course: Anthropological Research Methods. March 2025. Title of the lecture: Methods in Digital Ethnographic Research.

  • University of Amsterdam. Name of the course: Innovative Ethnographic Methods for Cross-Media Fashion Research. November 2024. Title of lecture: Clicks and Cultures: Digital Ethnography and Fashion.

  • Labor Tech HQ Speaker Series. August 2024. Title of the presentation: Through the Plastic Skin: Race and Technology on China’s AI Cultural Industry.

  • Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. Anthropology Department. September 2023. Title of the lecture: “Beyond the Stereotypical Barbie”: Representation of whiteness on China’s e- commerce platforms.

  • University of Amsterdam. Anthropology Department. Name of the course: Designing Fieldwork. October 2023. Title of lecture: Doing Remote Online Fieldwork.

  • University of Amsterdam. Computational Social Science. Name of the course: Methodology of Data / Digital Ethnography. September 2023. Title of the lecture: What is observation and how to do it?

  • University of California, Berkeley. Institute for East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies. February 2023. Title of the presentation: I’m an AI after all, who put the human on me?

  • University of California, Berkeley. Institute for East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies. November 2022. Title of the presentation: Foreign Entrepreneurs and Businesses in China. Under the ERC anthropological research project China-White: The reconfiguration of whiteness in China: Privileges, precariousness, and racialized performances.

  • University of Amsterdam. Anthropology Department. Name of the course: Designing Fieldwork. November 2021. Title of lecture: Digital Fieldwork and Cyber-Space.

  • Utrecht University. Anthropology Department. Name of the course: Doing Ethnography. September 2021. Title of lecture: Experimenting with Online Ethnography.