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Michigan State University

Gender and Politics (Spring 2025)

Course Overview: This course will provide an overview of the descriptive, representative, and symbolic incorporation of gender in politics. We will explore theoretical, as well as practical, and empirical accounts of gender in understanding politics. We will thematically cover definitions, conceptualizations and measurements of gender in politics, thoughtfully analyze how we understand the role of gender in different political spaces, and analyze contemporary and practical approaches to gender issues.

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Introduction to Comparative Politics (Fall 2023 + Spring 2024)

Course Overview: This course is an introductory survey of comparative political systems. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to political concepts and frameworks governing state behavior and development and to familiarize them with a variety of international political systems. Students will be introduced to basic methods of comparative analysis and will develop theoretical and practical skills of this subfield.

Cornell University

Spanish Foreign Language Across the Curriculum Topic: Latin America and the Modern World (Spring 2021)

Course Overview: This course was designed to complement material from the history course, Latin America and the Modern World. The objective of the course was for students to learn to interact with diverse language speakers and learn the conventions of the academic discourse, both oral and written, in the target language. As instructor for this class, I ran one class a week, where I gave short lectures on the history course material and held discussions on the readings. The rest of the course was focused primarily on teaching students to speak and read in Spanish, exposing them to a range of different types of writing in Spanish, such as academic research papers, policy briefs, op-eds, poetry, music, and journalistic writing. Students completed a creative final project of their choosing, such as a learning portfolio, oral presentation, project proposal, position paper, reading reflection or critique.

Teaching Assistant

Cornell University

Comparative Latin American Politics (Spring 2020) (Instructor Kenneth Roberts)

America Confronts the World (Fall 2019) (Instructor: Peter J. Katzenstein)