Teaching Experience
As Primary Instructor
EAST419/PLSC131: International Status in East Asian Politics
Location: Yale University (New Haven, CT)
Semester: Spring 2025
Type: Undergraduate
Synopsis: This course serves as an overview of status and prestige in international relations theory and an in-depth look at how status and prestige concerns drive foreign policy decision-making, influence interactions between states, and determine outcomes in global politics. Special attention is paid to how status and status-seeking behavior have impacted policies and regional dynamics in East Asia. The course is designed to develop students’ research and analytical writing skills. Reading materials are theory-driven and multidisciplinary, spanning political science, sociology, psychology, economics, and sports history.
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As Teaching Assistant
POLSUN3871: China's Foreign Relations
Location: Columbia University (New York, NY)
Instructor: Thomas J. Christensen
Semester: Spring 2021
Type: Undergraduate
Synopsis: A course tracing the history and development of China's foreign policy, from 1949 to the modern day.
POLSUN1601: International Politics
Location: Barnard College (New York, NY)
Instructor: Kimberly Marten
Semester: Fall 2020
Type: Undergraduate
Synopsis: Introductory course covering the primary theories, frameworks, and topics used to analyze and discuss global politics.
BUSIPS5020: Introduction to Marketing
Columbia University (New York, NY)
Instructor: Beth Hirschhorn
Semester: Summer 2020
Type: Professional studies
Synopsis: An introduction course on marketing.
POLSUN3619: Nationalism and Contemporary World Politics
Columbia University (New York, NY)
Instructor: Jack L. Snyder
Semester: Spring 2019 and Spring 2020
Type: Undergraduate
Synopsis: Course focused on understanding what nationalism is, the forms it can take, and its effects on political behavior.
POLSUN3401: Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe
Columbia University (New York, NY)
Instructor: Sheri Berman
Semester: Fall 2019
Type: Undergraduate
Synopsis: Using European history, this course discusses and analyzes theories of democracy and autocracy formation and consolidation, as well as the processes of democratic backsliding.
POLSUN3604: War, Peace, and International Interventions in Africa
Barnard College (New York, NY)
Instructor: Severine Autessere
Semester: Fall 2018
Type: Undergraduate
Synopsis: With a focus on the African continent, this course analyzes the causes of civil conflicts and international interventions and the development of the current international peacekeeping/peacebuilding regime, as well as its effectiveness.