Teaching Certifications
  • University at Albany, SUNY:  Institute for Teaching, Learning, and Academic Leadership, 2014-2015.
  • Princeton University McGraw Fellow, 2011-2014.
  • Princeton University McGraw Center:  Scholarly Approaches to Teaching and Learning Seminar, 2011-2012.
  • Princeton University McGraw Center:  Teaching Certificate, 2010-2011.

Courses Taught

Graduate Level
  • Analysis of International Politics
    • Fall 2015, Spring 2016. Fordham University.
    • This course is an advanced introduction to the causes and nature of international conflict and cooperation.  It is intended to provide a rigorous analytical framework for the rest of the graduate program, focusing on major theories and concepts in international politics.  This is an advanced writing, research, and discussion course, suitable for students interested in international security, international political economy, and international development.
 
  • Global Security
    • Summer 2016, Fordham University.  ​Spring 2015, University at Albany, SUNY.
    • This capstone course in international security explores theories on war initiation, alliances, international institutions and order, and nuclear weapons.  Students will engage with advanced political science texts, particularly that using quantitative analysis.  They will evaluate these theories based on their logic and empirical validity, as well as apply them to major policy challenges from history and to those facing the world currently.  This is an advanced methods and theory course involving extensive preparation and in-class discussion, as well as the drafting of research design proposals and/or policy memos.

Undergraduate Level
  • Introduction to International Politics
    • All semesters, 2015-2017, Fordham University.  Spring 2011, Princeton University.
    • This course surveys major questions in international political history, including the causes of war, the establishment of order, and trade.  It also touches upon contemporary policy challenges like terrorism, development, nuclear weapons, and rising/declining powers.  Analytically, the course is grounded in a careful and sustained presentation and application of four International Relations paradigms.  Methodologically, students are taught and expected to critically engage a significant amount of historical text, including primary sources.  This course can be taught in both discussion and lecture formats.
 
  • Negotiation and Statecraft
    • Spring 2018, Fordham University.  Fall 2014, University at Albany, SUNY.
    • This course explores strategic interaction and interstate bargaining from both theoretical and practical perspectives.  It further elucidates the theories covered in the previous substantive classes in the sequence (Intro to IR and American Foreign Policy).  But it also offers a practical opportunity to see how these theories play out in actual practice through the use of nine original simulations.  Students begin with a grounding in negotiation theory, drawing from the business literature, economics, psychology, and International Relations.  We then proceed through simulations drawn from historical events and contemporary policy challenges.
 
  • American Foreign Policy
    • Spring 2016, Fordham University.  Fall 2014, University at Albany, SUNY.  Fall 2010, Princeton University.
    • This course is an advanced exploration of systematic U.S. action towards other states.  We examine the philosophical underpinnings of American policy and how these drive its political, economic, military, and social orientation towards external relations.  The course is roughly divided into three parts, with the first covering general theories and issues in American foreign policy, the second tracing American grand strategy from the nation’s founding through the end of the Cold War, and the third discussing contemporary policy challenges in the Middle East and other regions, nuclear proliferation, and ethnic conflict.
 
  • Politics of Developing Countries
    • Fall 2011, Princeton University.
    • This course provides an advanced survey of comparative politics and development.  It focuses on three broad topics:  1) state formation;  2) the characteristics and effects of domestic political institutions (democracy vs. autocracy);  3) development economics from a political perspective.  Topics include the relationship between democracy and capitalism, the dynamics of repression and resistance, the resource curse, and the political underpinnings of economic growth strategies.

  • The Law and Ethics of War
    • Spring 2020, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
    • This course surveys the laws and ethics of war, fraught subjects over which people have been literally fighting for millennia.  We ask:  Are there – or should there be – legal and moral constraints over war?  Where should statesmen, generals, and lawyers draw the line between permissible and impermissible military violence?  Do existing laws have any effect, or do states simply “cheat” on their legal duties?

  • Chinese Foreign Policy
    • Spring 2021, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
    • This course surveys the laws and ethics of war, fraught subjects over which people have been literally fighting for millennia.  We ask:  Are there – or should there be – legal and moral constraints over war?  Where should statesmen, generals, and lawyers draw the line between permissible and impermissible military violence?  Do existing laws have any effect, or do states simply “cheat” on their legal duties?

Courses Prepped or that I Would Like to Teach
  • Security and Development in East Asia
  • Comparative Politics of East Asia and the Middle East
  • ​International and Comparative Political Economy
  • Research Design and Methods
  • Cinema and Political Violence