Courses Taught as Lead Instructor

War Termination and Post-conflict Recovery (Naval Postgraduate School: Spring 2025 [Scheduled])
  • Course Description: In recent decades, an increasing share of armed conflicts are ending in negotiated settlements. Yet maintaining lasting peace in conflict-affected countries is difficult---indeed, some scholars estimate that up to 90% of civil wars in the 2000s were "repeat civil wars", in which conflict restarted after an interval of peace. This course will focus on the challenge of ending conflicts and building peace, applying insights from social science to tackle important questions such as: How do peacekeeping forces prevent ceasefire violations from escalating? How are peace agreements negotiated and which types of provisions are most important? When do reforms to the political system or security sector help to maintain stability, and when are they counterproductive?
  • Draft Syllabus: (Link)

The Politics of Armed Rebellion (UCLA: Summer 2021)
  • Course Description: The core focus of this course is understanding the causes and consequences of contemporary civil wars and insurgencies through the lens of social science and public policy. Rebellion is the predominant source of armed violence in the world today, affecting countries as diverse as Colombia, Syria, Myanmar, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, among many others. This course applies insights from social science to tackle important questions such as: Why do ordinary people join rebel groups? Why are some countries more likely to experience armed conflict than others? And, how can governments respond effectively to rebellions? 
  • Syllabus: (Link)

Teaching Political Science (UCLA: Fall 2021, Spring 2022)
  • Course Description: This course is a two-quarter sequence designed as an introduction to teaching for graduate teaching assistants in political science. The broad aim is to prepare graduate students to be effective teachers, and each week it addresses the practical situations and challenges TAs face in this position, such as how to manage classroom dynamics or how to grade student assignments fairly. This is a hands-on course, and includes a mix of weekly seminar discussions with classroom observations and feedback. 

Courses Taught as TA
  • International Political Economy (undergraduate), with Ron Rogowski at UCLA, Spring, 2021
  • Experimental Design fo​r Social Science (graduate), with Graeme Blair at UCLA, Fall 2020
  • US Foreign Policy (undergraduate), with Deborah Larson at UCLA, Spring, 2020
  • Globalization: Governance and Conflict (undergraduate), with Eric Min at UCLA, Winter 2020 and Winter 2021
  • World Politics (undergraduate), with Robert Trager at UCLA, Winter, 2018
  • International Law (undergraduate), with Leslie Johns at UCLA, Fall, 2017

Other Teaching
  • Statistical Methods of Policy Analysis II (graduate level),  Coding Tutor, UCLA Luskin School of Public Policy, Winter, 2023