My teaching experience crosses the fields of international relations; comparative politics; immigration and immigrant integration; ethnicity, religion and culture; and gender and identity politics. As a Ph.D student at UC, Irvine I have been a teaching assistant for courses such as Introduction to International Relations, Micro Politics, Social Science Research Methods, Islam and the West, and Psychology of Conflict in the Middle East. In many of these courses I have received high teaching evaluation scores and outstanding teaching awards (please see my CV for a list). I have the experience to interact with students in a small classroom environment as well as in large lecture hall settings. My teaching style combines traditional teaching methods such as lecturing, with more interactive ways of teaching, where students participate in the learning process by applying concepts and theories to real life events and engage in discussions and debates with the instructor and fellow students.

 

In the future I would be interested to teach courses on Comparative Politics (general/theoretical and on Western Europe and/or the Middle East); International Relations (general/theoretical and on international institutions, international security, immigration and globalization); Immigration and Immigrant integration (with an emphasis on the comparative analysis of immigrants and immigration policies in the US and Western Europe); Gender, Culture and Religion; Islam and the West; and Political Psychology (including identity politics and political behavior).

 

 

Sample Syllabi

 

Intro to International Relations

 

Micro Political Theory

 

Religion, Culture and Gender in Immigration Research