Teaching Experience

Instructor: Introduction to Folklore , Folk 101, College of General Studies/Department of Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania, (Summer 1999)

Semester equivalent summer course at the undergraduate level.

Lecturer: American Folklore (6 week course), Jewish Community Center of Southern New Jersey, May-June 1997

6 lectures: definition of folklore, folklore and identity, Cajun foodways, Anglo-American etiquette, Jewish cultural identity, Klezmer music and African American folklore.

Teaching Assistant: Folk and Alternative Medicine, Folk 369 Department of Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 1996

2 lectures: Birthing choices and overview of the course. This course, taught by Dr. Bonnie O'Connor, examined numerous folk and alternative health systems, including Voudou, faith healing, theraputic touch, Chinese Traditional Medicine, Acupuncture and Acupressure, Herbalism, Natural Medicine, Homeopathy among others.

Tour Guide (part time): American Council for International Study, London, England, 1990-1991

This company organizes bus tours through American education institutions. Most of the tours are for high school students but one that I led through southern England was for donors to a university and the participants mostly senior citizens. I gave t wo tours to high school students in 1990, one to Scotland and England, one to Ireland, London and Paris. On each tour, I was responsible both for the daily logistics and for giving lectures relating to the sites we visited and the country or region as a whole. Each tour was 10 days or two weeks long.