Teaching Philosophy:

I've taught a number of different subjects: previously, Spanish and Modern Standard Arabic (to high schoolers and adults); and more recently, various topics related to cultural and linguistic anthropology, as well as ethnographic methods (to college and university students).

Always threaded throughout my courses is an emphasis on how we, as scholars and citizens, can leverage the detailed study of language to combat linguistic discrimination and fight for social justice. As such, students work ethnographically with communities of their choosing as they learn about our theories and methods. And my questions to them as they undertake this research are always the following: how are people’s most minimal sayings-and-doings speaking to larger sociopolitical issues? What are the social justice implications of your research?

I also deeply enjoy using eclectic modalities for student learning. Thus, I craft my syllabi, lecture materials, and assignment prompts with ArcGIS StoryMaps, a neat platform that allows for the incorporation of maps, news media, podcasts, imagery and film, etc.

Teaching Resources:

Class List:

  • Anthropological theory

  • Cultural anthropology

  • Evolution of language

  • Linguistic anthropology

  • The Mediterranean borderlands

  • Bilingualism in society

  • Language, gender, and sexuality

  • Ethnographic methods

  • Language and globalization

“Why Choose Anthropology?”

Prof. Evers interviews Anthro major Tony Jin

Tony Jin from the class of 2022 and I talk about why Tony chose to pursue a degree in Anthropology and some brief thoughts on my Linguistic Anthropology course.