He is also a faculty member in the Science, Technology, and Society program and the Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Ph.D. program. He currently teaches undergraduate courses in critical media analysis and cultural studies, though he has also taught courses in surveillance, cinema, and media history. His graduate courses cover such topics as cultural studies, communications theory, critical and interpretive research methods, politics of the digital, technology, and the work of Michel Foucault. Dr. Packer is active in graduate advising and co-authoring research with Ph.D. students.