I teach on a range of topics related to my research expertise including authoritarianism, political violence and armed conflict, international development, gender, and research ethics. I have taught at institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland.
I’m a committed and passionate educator. Drawing on specialised teaching training that I received at Tufts (2016-17), I tailor all my classroom activities to ensure that learning is inclusive, participatory, and applied. For instance, I have designed semester-long role plays, including the opportunity for students to directly engage international development practitioners and country experts. In my current module at York, we use diverse learning materials in class—including novels, short stories, cartoon art, and political posters—to reflect on the politics of knowledge production in the academy and the “blinkers” that have shaped political science scholarship on authoritarianism.
I am interested in supervising Ph.D. studies in comparative politics or international relations, especially related to:
If you are an undergraduate or masters student interested in writing your thesis on processes of ethical review, and would like to discuss thesis ideas, please get in touch.
Contributor, University of Glasgow
Convenor, University of York
Contributor, University of York
Convenor, The Graduate Institute, Geneva (IHEID)
The Politics of Research Ethics: Cultivating a Critical Orientation: I designed this 1-day pre-conference minicourse for the American Political Science Association (Los Angeles, USA, 30 August), with guest lecturers Neeraj Prasad, Will Reno, Anastasia Shesterinina and Kai Thaler.
Reimagining Global Justice Within and Through the University: I co-designed and directed this 1-week residential program for Central European University Summer School. The summer school welcomed fully-funded early career faculty from the Global South work alongside leading scholars on global inequality to ask how we can reimagine the university’s role in our pursuit of a more just world.
Public Authority and Humanitarianism Course: I contributed to this hybrid 9-week course co-hosted by the University of Johannesburg and the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa at the London School of Economics. The course is designed for early- and mid-career humanitarian and development professionals.
Global Scholars Academy: From 2019 to 2022, I was a faculty member for an Open Society Network-funded joint Harvard-Geneva Graduate Institute initiative to support early career Global South scholars over a 1-week residential workshop and virtual learning, in-person in (Geneva, 2019; Budapest, 2022), online (2020; 2021).
Director for Thesis Module, Global Master of Arts (GMAP), the Fletcher School: From 2015 to 206, I directed the thesis module in Fletcher’s Executive Education programme, deigning and delivering course content, and mentoring students one-on-one to produce high-quality and rigorous theses.