Lectureship

(PRINCETON UNIVERSITY)

POL440, co-taught with Professor John Ikenberry (Spring 2021 and Spring 2022). Official course description: “International order encompasses the governing arrangements that organize relations among states, including the fundamental rules, principles, and institutions of the international system. This course draws on a wide range of readings in International Relations theory as well as diplomatic and global history to consider plausible accounts of the emergence, development, and decline of international orders across human history. The course will review prominent theories of international order, explore crucial junctures of order formation and decline, and consider the sociology and causal mechanics of pivotal institutions of international order.”

Teaching Assistantships

(Princeton university)

POL345, under Professor Kosuke Imai (Fall, 2015). Official course description: “Would universal health insurance improve the health of the poor? Do patterns of arrests in US cities show evidence of racial profiling? What accounts for who votes and their choice of candidates? This course will teach students how to address these and other social science questions by analyzing quantitative data. The course introduces basic principles of statistical inference and programming skills for data analysis. The goal is to provide students with the foundation necessary to analyze data in their own research and to become critical consumers of statistical claims made in the news media, in policy reports, and in academic research.”
- I served as a teaching assistant for two sections of this course. I prepared extensive booklets on random variables and asymptotic uncertainty estimation for my students, which are made available here for public use. You can access my evaluations here.
POL380, under Professor Gary Bass (Spring, 2016). Official course description: “A study of the politics and history of human rights. What are human rights? How can dictatorships be resisted from the inside and the outside? Can we prevent genocide? Is it morally acceptable and politically wise to launch humanitarian military interventions to prevent the slaughter of foreign civilians? What are the laws of war, and how can we punish the war criminals who violate them? Cases include the Ottoman Empire, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Bosnia, and Rwanda.”
- I served as a teaching assistant for two sections of this course. You can access my evaluations here.
POL240, under Professor Andrew Moravcsik (Spring, 2017). Official course description: “This course is an introduction to the causes and nature of international conflict and cooperation. We critically examine various theories of international politics by drawing on examples drawn from international security, economic and legal affairs across different historical eras from 10,000 BC to the present. Topics include the causes of war, the pursuit of economic prosperity, the sources of international order and its breakdown, and the rise of challenges to national sovereignty, and such contemporary issues as international environmental politics, human rights promotion, global terrorism, and the future of US foreign policy.”
- I served as a teaching assistant for two sections of this course. You can access my evaluations here.
POL393, under Professors Aaron Friedberg and John Ikenberry (Spring, 2020). Official course description: “Grand strategy is the broad and encompassing policies and undertakings that political leaders pursue- financial, economic, military, diplomatic- to achieve their objectives in peacetime and in war. This course will examine the theory and practice of grand strategy both to illuminate how relations among city-states, empires, kingdoms and nation states have evolved over the centuries and also to identify some common challenges that have confronted all who seek to make and execute grand strategy from Pericles to Barack Obama.”
- I served as a teaching assistant for three sections of this course. You can access my evaluations here.