Teaching

I approach the classroom as a space in which the students and I collaborate to think through the politics of our world, and to reflect on our respective places in it. This approach is grounded in my commitment to a learning environment in which students understand their own agency. I take it as my task to frame the course contents in such a way that the matter at hand feels deeply relevant to students’ own lives. For example, in introductory sessions I have asked students to write about and then discuss which communities they consider themselves to be members of, whether they imagine membership to be an active choice, and what benefits and responsibilities they imagine attend that membership. In centering the students as active subjects in the political world, I aim to bridge the abstraction of political thinking and the valuable experiences the individual students bring to the classroom. I also actively construct syllabi that reflect the diverse composition of student bodies today, both in the scholars represented, and in the ideas reflected in their scholarship.

Courses Taught

• Global Transformations and the Human Condition
• Globalize This! The Politics of Globalization and Transnational Activism
• Introduction to Global Politics
• Introduction to Comparative Politics
• Introduction to Politics: Power, Participation, and Political Community
• Western Political Thought II (Modern Political Theory)