Teaching.
Teaching Philosophy.
My approach to teaching is centred around creating inclusive and supportive learning environments where students are able to hone their existing abilities and develop new skills. Through this approach, I aim not only to encourage students to ask questions of the world around them, but also give them the tools to critically reflect on and engage with it, regardless of the paths they take after graduation. Both by creating welcoming and inclusive classroom communities and by incorporating a wide range of perspectives, I work to ensure that my teaching is responsive to students of all backgrounds. By creating inclusive learning environments that centre diversity, my goal is to integrate and supplement the acquisition of knowledge on the part of the students with the development of skills, abilities, and attitudes that will be of use to them both inside the classroom and in the diverse world outside it. I have had the opportunity to refine and apply this approach in numerous contexts—as course instructor, thesis supervisor, workshop leader, and through pedagogical training programmes—and have developed several strategies for putting this approach into practice.
Teaching Experience.
“International Organization” (University of Arkansas, Political Science & International and Global Studies)
“Race and Colonialism in International Relations” (University of Arkansas, Political Science & African and African American Studies)
“Introduction to International Relations” (University of Arkansas, Political Science)
Undergraduate thesis supervisor (University of Arkansas, Political Science & Scripps College, Politics)
“The Global Politics of (B)orders & Migration” (Scripps College, Politics, Spring 2024 & Spring 2025)
“Critical Perspectives and Marginalized Voices in Global Politics” (Scripps College, Politics)
“Introduction to Global Politics” (Scripps College, Politics)
“Race and Colonialism in Global Politics” (Scripps College, Politics)
“Decolonizations” (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Liberal Arts & Scripps College, Politics)
“International Politics” (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Liberal Arts)
“Race and International Politics in the (Post-)Colonial” (Northwestern University, International Studies)
Guest lectures on “Interpretivist Approaches to International Relations” and “Race, Colonialism, and International Law”
Pedagogical Training & Service.
De-Centering the US in the Global Politics Classroom – APSA Teaching & Learning Symposium (February 2024)
Created APSA Educate resource, “Incorporating Alternative Sources, Perspectives, and Forms of Knowledge”
Pedagogical Workshop Leader – Searle Center for Advancing Learning & Teaching, Northwestern University (May 2022)
Graduate Student Teaching Conference Workshop Leader – Searle Center for Advancing Learning & Teaching, Northwestern University (September 2021)
Teaching Certificate Program – Searle Center for Advancing Learning & Teaching, Northwestern University (2019-20)
Graduate Student Teaching Committee Certificate – Department of Political Science, Northwestern University (2018-19)