At the Sam Fox School, I am teaching a undergraduate courses on design history and graduate seminar on the social history of digital technology. Along with colleagues at peer institutions, I am leading teaching workshops that introduces methods of archive-based pedagogy to design educators.

Recent Courses

African American Design History
Graphic Design History

• Museum Tour Worksheet
  
• Graphic Analysis Worksheet

UnCommon St. Louis: Race, Place, and Power
Race and Design 

Chicago Designs Teaching Workshops

Chicago Designs II: Teaching Community-Based Histories, hosted by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago / Design Museum of Chicago, June 14-18, 2024.
Chicago Designs: New Approaches for Teaching Politics, Commerce, and Culture, hosted by The Newberry Library in Chicago, June 14-17, 2022.

Recorded Talks

“Black Revolutions: Organizing the Production of Black Design," BIPOC Design History Course (January 23, 2021)
On Charles Dawson for Art & Design in Chicago, WTTW/PBS, television broadcast October 26, 2018

Courses Previously Taught

• History of Graphic Design [Art History, Wayne State University]
  
• American Things (A Social History) [Honors College, Oakland University]
• Racial and Ethnic Relations [Sociology, Oakland University]
• Sociological Theory [Sociology, Oakland University]
• Mass Culture in American Life [History, University of Toronto]
• Slavery in the American South [History, University of Toronto]
• Race in American Material Culture [History, University of Toronto]