Teaching

My teaching equips students to understand and analyze how ideologies, state and non-state institutions, organizations, and actors from elites to ordinary people interact and contest power in a variety of geographic and cultural contexts. To teach effectively, I follow the principles of critical thinking, historical contextualization, interactive student-centered learning, and epistemological pluralism.

Experience

California Polytechnic State University

Lecturer

POLS 112: American and California Government (Spring 2026)

POLS 229: Introduction to Comparative Politics (Fall 2025)

POLS 384: Comparative Law (Winter, Spring 2026)

POLS 428: Immigration Politics and Policy (Fall 2025)

POLS 428: Politics of Russia and Eastern Europe (Winter 2026)

Rutgers University New Brunswick

Lecturer

POLISCI 381: Politics of Russia and Eastern Europe (Spring 2025)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Instructor

POLISCI 377: Interpretation & Analysis – Junior Year Writing (Fall 2021 and Spring 2022)

POLISCI 111: Introduction to Comparative Politics (Fall 2024)

Teaching Assistant

POLISCI 101: Introduction to American Politics (Fall 2018)

POLISCI 171: Introduction to Political Theory (Spring 2019, 2020, and 2024)

POLISCI 111: Introduction to Comparative Politics (Fall 2019, 2020)

POLISCI 297PW: The ‘Other’ Strikes Back: Problematizing Western Notions of Global Politics (Spring 2021)

POLISCI 281: Comparative Political Economy (Fall 2023)