Teaching

I approach teaching as a shared enterprise between my students and me. My primary goal is to find creative and innovative ways to give students the space to collaborate in this enterprise. By decentering myself and facilitating discussion rather than telling students what they should think about the assigned readings, I endeavor to give students the space to develop critical thinking skills as they wrestle with philosophical ideas.

I am prepared to offer introductory courses in political theory or global politics as well as advanced seminars in global and comparative political thought, the history and politics of international law, Islamic and Middle Eastern politics, and the history of political thought.

Teaching experience:

As lead instructor

Pitzer College, Political Studies Field Group

“Introduction to Political Philosophy,” Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026″Islamic Political Thought,” Spring 2025.
“Modern Political Thought,” Fall 2025.
“Conquest, Conversion, and Convivencia: the Politics of Personhood in al-Andalus (Spain) and the Americas,” Fall 2024, Spring 2025.

Pitzer College, History Field Group

“Islamic and Indigenous Identity in the Spanish Empire,” Spring 2026.

As teaching assistant

UCLA, Department of Political Science

“Late Modern Political Theory,” with Prof. Davide Panagia, Winter 2022, Winter 2024.
“Introduction to Political Theory,” with Prof. Davide Panagia, Fall 2018, Fall 2021.
“The Roots of Democracy,” with Prof. Daniel Treisman, Spring 2021.
“The Politics of International Law,” with Prof. Leslie Johns, Winter 2019, Winter, Spring, and Fall 2020, Winter 2021.
“The Laws of War and Peace,” with Prof. Anthony Pagden, Fall 2019.
“Early Modern Political Theory,” with Prof. Anthony Pagden, Spring 2019.

Image: Christoph Weiditz, “Haustracht der Morisken-Mädchen / Moriske als Brotträger” (1530s), Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, Hs. 22474. Bl.103–104.