His research examines discourses of global citizenship in higher education, the relationships between politics and media with a particular focus on South Africa, and critical, community-based pedagogies in media production. He teaches across cultural studies, media studies, African studies, and human rights, and has led study abroad programs to South Africa, Spain, and Tanzania. He is the author of Starring Mandela and Cosby: Media and the End(s) of Apartheid (Chicago, 2010), is a co-principle investigator in a major two-year grant developing Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) projects and pedagogies across the three campuses of the University of Washington, and is a past recipient of the University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award.