Teaching

In recent years I have taught classes on civil and international conflict, Africa politics, climate change, international relations theory, foreign policy, international organizations, the politics of development, and political methodology. Information about these courses including syllabi are available from the links below.

Over the years I have created a number of resources for my students and tutors including guides for writing literature reviews and research proposals. I have collected a number of these resources on my teaching resources page.

From July to November 2020, I taught Environment, Human Security, and Conflict as a hybrid class. I posted all my videos as weekly playlists on my course page along with my lecture slides and outlines.

I have also uploaded all my slides from my 2011 graduate maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) class on the class page. They start with the intuition behind and assumptions underlying each type of model before giving hands-on examples in Stata. I found this approach very useful when I was learning these models, and I hope others find them useful as well.

Finally, for an introductory course on international relations I used to teach I developed a semester-long simulation centered on the 2011- Syrian conflict. In 2017 I won a college teaching award for the simulation design, and I recently published an article with Dr. Jessica Genauer describing it in more detail. This article outlines the costs and benefits of simulation design options towards encouraging students’ understanding of international relations concepts, and it proposes a course plan for tightly integrating lectures, readings, assessment, and simulation, regardless of class size or length. You can find the paper at the journal here. If your institution does not subscript to PS, do let me know.

Australian National University

Undergraduate

Civilian Protection in Conflict and Post-Conflict Zones (POLS4021/8021) 2021(S1) this is a new class I am teaching in Semester 1, 2021. The syllabus is still under development. The online description was written by someone way before my time, so while some of the topics will be the same, much will be updated given the dramatic growth in recent years of research in this area.

Conflict and Change in Sub-Saharan Africa (POLS3040) 2019, 2021(S2)

Environment, human security, and conflict (POLS3033) 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020

Introduction to International Relations (POLS1005) 2015-2018

International Relations Theory (POLS3017) 2015-2017