Teaching Overview

My teaching experience spans the fields of IR theory, research design, data analysis, and statistics. In total, I have taught four different courses as an instructor of record: International Relations, Political Analysis, Data Visualization, and American Foreign Policy. Brief course descriptions are provided below, and syllabi are available upon request. In addition to the classes I have already taught, I am eager to design and teach new courses on normative international relations theory and methods courses such as regression/maximum likelihood estimation and causal inference.

Political Science 124: International Relations (Syracuse University)

This course is an introduction to the study of international relations (IR). It fosters skills to critically analyze and discuss a wide range of political phenomena, with a special focus on processes of conflict and cooperation in global politics. We will start with an introduction to the general theoretical frameworks of the discipline, such as Realism, Liberalism, and Constructivism. In the second part of the course we apply our theoretical tools to specific topics, including the causes of war, economic relations, international organizations, and environmental politics.

Political Science 202: Political Analysis (Syracuse University)

The purpose of this course, required for political science majors, is to build skills for conducting, interpreting, and presenting political science research. These skills include basic research and data collection practices, techniques for measuring political science concepts quantitatively, hypothesis testing, interpretation of statistical evidence, and the presentation of findings in a clear and compelling manner.

Political Science 400: Data Visualization (Syracuse University)

Data and data analysis are increasingly important for political science research as well as in the public discourse and the workplace. In this class, you will learn how to conduct data visualization yourself. We'll cover topics such as finding data, data cleaning, data manipulation, and data visualization. Along the way, we'll learn basic statistical functions and plots in the powerful (and free) statistical program R. Throughout, the class takes an applied approach, so students will develop their own research project and conduct their own data visualizations.

Political Science 2300: American Foreign Policy (Ohio State University)

This course examines contemporary issues in U.S. foreign policy. The central goal of this course is to provide students with the knowledge and analytical skills necessary to grapple with the question: what should America’s role in a turbulent world be? Within the U.S. foreign policy community, an active debate has been raging about whether the U.S. should pull back its forces from around the world and practice restraint or if it should remain actively engaged in world affairs and continue to assert itself militarily and economically. By the end of this class, students will stake out a position on this important issue, using course materials to articulate the grand strategy they believe U.S. officials should adopt moving forward.