Teaching Philosophy:
My pedagogical practices focus on how to approach diversity in the classroom and promote critical thinking among students. My main purpose as a teacher is to help students learn how to use sociological theory and empirical evidence to formulate their own original ideas, question their position in society, and engage with social phenomena around them. I have developed a pedagogical style centered around developing confidence so that students feel comfortable taking risks and finding their own academic voice. Likewise, I am committed to promoting an inclusive and equitable environment in the classroom, centering minority voices, and contributing to the diversification of the student, faculty, and staff community within the educational settings where I work.
My main goals in the classroom are:
1. To inspire enthusiasm for the subject matter;
2. To provide students with the necessary tools for analyzing the social worlds in which they are immersed;
3. To facilitate a safe and inclusive environment that encourages collaborative participation; and
4. To provide useful assignments and give prompt feedback so students can benefit as much as possible from the teaching process.
Teaching experience:
Universidad de Tarapacá, Department of Education:
"Epistemology and Interdisciplinarity in Social Sciences" for Social Sciences Phd Program (2025)
Degree thesis" for the Early Childhood Education program (4 hours per week) (2025)
“Project Workshop and Degree Seminar” for the Early Childhood Education program (6 hours per week) (2025)
"Ethnography of America 2" for Anthropology program (guest lecturer) (2024)
Stanford University:
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez:
Universidad Alberto Hurtado:
Pomona College:
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor:
University of California, Berkeley (Graduate Student Instructor):
* Evaluated with a 4.8/5.0 for overall teaching effectiveness, above the departmental average (Link to complete evaluation).
*Evaluated with a 4.7/5.0 for overall teaching effectiveness, above the departmental average (Link to complete evaluation).
Universidad de Chile:
Thesis supervision:
Paula Carvajal, Karen Gómez, Roxana Talamilla, Betzabet Villegas, Early Childhood Education program, Universidad de Tarapacá: "Didactic strategies to develop scientific inquiry skills in boys and girls"
Other mentoring experience:
Advisor for UNESCO Regional Seminar Certificate “Young women in a society of information/knowledge,” in charge of mentoring 10 young scholars from different Latin American countries conducting research projects focused on gender and ethnoracial minorities (2011)
Design and implementation of labor and technology workshops for immigrant women in Santiago, supported by the United Nations Development Fund for Women, the Jesuit Service to Immigrants, and the INTEL Learning Program (2011)
Fields of teaching
Given my research and teaching experience, I am prepared to teach courses on:
- International Migration
- Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality
- Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
- Political Sociology
- Introduction to Sociology/Anthropology
- Classical Social Theory
- Contemporary Social Theory
- Epistemology of Social Sciences
- Research/Thesis Design
- Qualitative Methods (ethnographic methods, interviewing methods, archival methods)
