Teaching

In each course and interaction with my students, my commitment is to create an open, lively, and respectful atmosphere in which students are expected and encouraged to contribute. However, I also believe that it is my responsibility to generate a sense of intellectual disquiet. I want my students to challenge themselves and their peers to re-evaluate positions or interpretations that they have always held as simply self-evident or “just my opinion.” I encourage my students to critically think about how the world that we know has come to be and how or why we may transform it. I endeavor to integrate the pedagogical approaches of international relations (case studies, empirical research, and theories as frameworks or tools) with political theory (close readings of primary texts, historical specificity, and theories as imagined or reflected orderings of the world) to illuminate the necessity of both for grasping contemporary politics.

Selected Courses taught:

Humanitarianism in Crisis

Laws of War Past and Present

Critical International Relations Theory

Night Raids, Detention, Torture, and Drones: Afghanistan and Beyond