Teaching

TEACHING PHILOSOPHY

I approach teaching as a way to expose students to new ideas, concepts, and methods of thinking about and engaging with social problems and inequalities.In my courses, I incorporate experiential learning to provide students with more opportunities to work with real-world data to examine topics such as poverty, income inequality, food insecurity, housing, and disparities in health outcomes.

I believe this hands-on approach not only helps students connect theoretical concepts with practical applications but also gives them a chance to see the impact their work can have in creating a functional and healthy society. I value slow and thoughtful learning and want students to engage with the concepts and methods they are exposed to.

COURSES I TEACH

  • Applied Social Statistics
  • Quantitative Research Methods
  • Social Problems and Inequalities
  • Sociology of Health
  • Survey Methodology
  • Computational Sociology
  • Critical Data Studies
  • Society and Technology

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

LECTURER

Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University

  • SOCI 212, Statistics I, Winter 2025
  • Designed a course in social statistics by incorporating experiential learning to provide students with more opportunities to work with real-world data on topics such as income inequality, food insecurity, housing, disparities in health outcomes, etc.

TEACHING ASSISTANT

Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University

  • SOCI 212–B, Statistics I, Fall 2024
  • SOCI 213–B, Statistics II, Winter 2024
  • SOCI 213–CC, Statistics II, Winter 2024
  • SOCI 213–AA, Statistics II, Fall 2023
  • SOCI 310, Research Methods, Winter 2022
  • SOCI 300, Classical Social Theory, Winter 2025, Fall 2024
  • SOCI 300, Classical Social Theory, Winter 2023, Fall 2022
  • SOCI 300, Classical Social Theory, Winter 2022, Fall 2021

TEACHING ASSISTANT

Department of Applied Human Sciences, Concordia University

  • AHSC 380: Quantitative Research Methods for Practitioners, Winter 2022

TUTOR

Self-Employed, Tehran, Iran, 2016-2020

  • Taught Social Statistics and quantitative methods to undergraduate social science students.