Teaching

Instructor of record, Rutgers University

• Politics of Authoritarianism, Summer 2026

  This course treats authoritarian regimes as a subject in their own right, covering the organization of elite power, the governance of populations and economies, the management of opposition, and regime change. It develops conceptual tools and applies them comparatively across world regions, distinguishing patterns common to authoritarian rule from those specific to particular settings.

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• Activism in the Digital Age, Spring 2026

  Digital technologies have lowered the cost of coordination for social movements while placing activists inside infrastructures owned and governed by corporations. This course examines the effects of these conditions on the organization, reach, and vulnerability of collective action, and assesses the outcomes of digital mobilization. It draws on comparative politics, social movement studies, and digital communication research, comparing democratic and authoritarian contexts.

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• State and Social Movements, Fall 2025

  This course examines the interaction between social movements and states as each responds to the other’s strategies. Building on the core concepts of social movement scholarship, it follows this interaction across the courts, the media, culture and emotion, and countermobilization, and compares it across region, period, issue, group, and regime type.

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• Gender and Politics in Global Perspective, Summer 2025

  This course examines how gender organizes political institutions, collective action, and political meaning across national contexts. It follows that organization through electoral representation, state policy, movement mobilization, international norms, and armed conflict, attending to variation by region, regime type, level of development, and historical moment. Throughout, it develops the comparative strategies that make such variation analyzable.

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Teaching assistant, Rutgers University

• Law and Politics, Fall 2023 and Spring 2024
• Introduction to Politics, Fall 2022 and Spring 2023

Courses prepared to teach

• Introduction to Comparative Politics

  Covers regimes from democracies to authoritarian states and regions that receive less attention, through state building, elections and party systems, social welfare and redistribution, identity and ethnic politics, political economy and development, polarization, and democratic backsliding.

• Chinese Politics

  Examines China since the late 1970s, in the tense coexistence of market reform with single-party rule, through decision-making design and cadre management, social and population policy, law and the coercive apparatus, digital governance and surveillance, and information control and ideological work.

• Qualitative and Mixed Methods

  Covers case selection and comparison, process tracing, interviewing, archival and documentary research, the construction of event data, and the ethics of research with human subjects, and combines qualitative evidence with quantitative data in a single design.

• Quantitative Research Methods

  Carries students through a full quantitative project in R, from operationalizing concepts and recoding data to descriptive statistics, cross tabulation, and regression, using American election data as a single working dataset.

• Graduate seminars

  Authoritarian politics, states and social movements, and qualitative and mixed methods, each building toward a student’s own research design or article-length paper.