Teaching

My teaching spans the Political Science subfields of Comparative Politics, International Relations, and Political Theory. At Penn I received a Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students and was twice a finalist for the student-nominated Penn Prize in Excellence for Teaching.

Courses

Amherst

Politics of the Middle East and North Africa, Fall 2024, 2025

The US and the Middle East, Fall 2024, 2025

Conflict Over Israel-Palestine, Spring 2025, 2026

Politics of Civil Wars in the Middle East: Conflict, Reconstruction, Justice (Libya, Yemen, Syria), Spring 2025

Power-Sharing and Constitutional Design in Divided Societies, Spring 2026

Wellesley

Comparative Politics, Fall 2023 & Spring 2024

Politics of the Middle East and North Africa, Fall 2023

Politics of Decolonization, Spring 2024

Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Politics, Spring 2024

UCLA

Conflict and Power Sharing in Deeply Divided Places, Winter 2023

Bryn Mawr College

U.S. and the Middle East, Spring 2022

Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Politics, Spring 2021

Islam and Politics, Spring 2021

Middle East Politics, Fall 2021, Fall 2020

Politics of Nationalism, Fall 2020

Anti-Political Theory & Radical Study, Fall 2020 - Co-taught with Joel Shlosser to accompany Fred Moten’s Flexner Lectures on Hesitant Sociology: Blackness and Poetry.

Politics of International Law and Institutions, Spring 2020

University of Pennsylvania

Freedom & Domination in American Political Thought, Summer 2018 (co-taught with Loren Goldman)

This course was part of the social science requirement for the PennCAP (College Achievement Program), an intensive four-week summer course for incoming fist year students from low-income and/or first generation backgrounds, designed to help with adjustment to the demands of academic work in college.

Additionally, I developed an online course, Oil & Politics in the Middle East, for a new Certificate in Modern Middle East Studies, a collaboration between Penn’s Middle East Center and the College of Liberal and Professional Studies.

Teaching Assistant

International Politics of the Middle East — Robert Vitalis, Fall 2019

American Political Thought — Anne Norton, Spring 2017

Modern Political Thought — Loren Goldman, Fall 2016

Arab-Israeli Relations — Ian Lustick, Spring 2016

Political Change in the “Third World” — Rudra Sil, Fall 2015

Hobart & William Smith Colleges

Teaching Assistant for Problems & Methods in the Study of Politics — Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Fall 2012

Peer Tutor for Introduction to Comparative Politics — Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Spring 2010