I am an experienced and award-winning teacher, having taught more than two dozen classes as Lecturer and about the same as a Graduate Student Instructor. My teaching is wide-ranging, straddling American Politics, Political Theory, Political Economy, and Comparative Politics. I can offer courses in contemporary political theory, the history of political thought, theories of political economy, comparative political theory/economy, American politics, the EU, human rights, and the philosophy of social science. I am also leading a curriculum review of the Political Economy program at Berkeley, and I am in the process of developing an article with Steve Vogel titled “Rethinking Political Economy: How to Teach it Right,” which came out of the panel I facilitated for the Network for a New Political Economy, where I am the post-doctoral coordinator.

I have designed several courses from scratch, including the three courses I am teaching Fall 2021: “Political Economy and National Identity in Britain and the United States,” “Multiculturalism in Theory and Practice,” and “What is Political Economy?” In Spring 2022 I will be teaching another brand new course for the Political Science Department at Berkeley,  “Liberal Democracy, Identity, and Nation in the United States,” and reteaching “Identity, Integration, and the EU,” for Global Studies. In addition, I will be teaching Introduction to American Politics at UC Davis during their Winter Quarter 2022. Please see here for evidence of my teaching effectiveness, including summaries of my quantitative and qualitative evaluations, my Statement of Teaching Philosophy, sample assignments, and sample syllabi. All of my syllabi are available here, and all my evaluations are available here.

In every class I teach, my aim is to develop my students’ abilities to analyze and interpret the arguments of others, and to craft stronger oral and written arguments themselves. As well as frequent in-class debates, I ask students to present on readings which relate theoretical texts to contemporary issues, such as a piece in Medium on the political economy of social media and “fake news,” and how this may be contributing to the breakdown of trust in our “imagined” national communities. Outside the classroom, I am enthusiastic about mentoring my students in order to help them achieve success. I have supervised an award-winning senior thesis in political anthropology on the EU refugee crisis, and several other undergraduate research projects on multiculturalism, the EU, and political economy. As a scholar of cultural diversity, an ex-Governor of an inner-city school, and a former legal-aid lawyer, I am acutely conscious of the challenges historically marginalized groups face, and committed to addressing them via pedagogy, research, and mentoring.