Teaching
Teaching experience ranges from academic to hands-on community and youth arts instruction.
Academic
Stephens College, Columbia, MO, School of Design
Fall 2016-present, Assistant Professor
- Dress and Fashion: 1900 to Present (upper-level course of my own design)
- History and Culture of Dress and Fashion (upper-level course of my own design)
- Film, Fashion, and Costume Design (introductory course of my own design)
- Introduction to Fashion and Museum Studies (upper-level independent study)
- Ethnographic Methods for Fashion Studies (upper-level independent study)
- Advanced Fashion Museum Studies (upper-level independent study)
- Basics of Apparel Construction (introductory sewing lab)
- Fashion Workroom Techniques (introductory sewing lab)
- Art Direction and Photo Styling (museum photography component, upper-level course taught by Lisa Lenoir)
University of California, Los Angeles, CA, Department of World Arts and Culture
March 2016-June 2016, Instructor
- Collecting Indigenous Mesoamerican Dress (upper-level course of own design)
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, Department of Communication and Culture
August 2006-July 2010, Associate Instructor (sole taught all courses)
- Public Speaking (introductory course on rhetorical theory and practice)
- Interpersonal Communication (introductory course)
- Communicating through Clothes (designed this upper-level course)
International Academy of Design and Technology, Chicago, IL, Design Department
September 2004-March 2005, Adjunct Instructor (sole taught)
- History of 20th Century American Dress (introductory course)
- Film and Fashion (designed this upper-level course)
Arts
Dress Doctor, San Francisco Bay Area, CA
October 2011-May 2013, Instructor
- Private and semi-private sewing instruction for adults and children
Wee Scotty Design Studio, San Francisco, CA
May 2011-October 2011, Instructor
- Adult and children’s sewing instruction
Miami University-Ohio, Miami, OH, Theater Department
January 2008, Visiting Instructor (sole-taught section as an ensemble member of Chicago-based Plasticene Physical Theater Company)
- Resource Development and Design for weekend workshop on experimental theater; theory and practice
Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, Theater Department
March 2005, Visiting Instructor (sole-taught section as an ensemble member of Chicago-based Plasticene Physical Theater Company)
- Resource Development and Design for weekend workshop on experimental theater; theory and practice
Shalom Community Center, Bloomington, IN
December 2007-April 2008, Instructor
- Group textile arts instruction
Estrojam Music and Culture Festival, Chicago, IL
September 2004, Workshop Instructor
- D-I-Y Grassroots Political Activism (political art)
