Classes Taught

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and before that at the University of Louisville, I teach classes on Authoritarianism, Comparative Politics, Middle East Politics, Political Islam, and Political Violence.

Religion and Politics

• This graduate seminar … (Spring 2021)

Non-Democracies

• This upper division seminar provides a political science-based overview of non-democratic regimes, focusing on their key features, resilience, breakdown, and legacies (Spring 2019, Spring 2020 (part virtual)).

Introduction to Comparative Politics

• This lower division lecture provides a broad overview of the field of comparative politics, focusing on state formation, nationalism, political economy, authoritarianism and democratization, and political violence (Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2021 (virtual)).

Introduction to Middle East Politics

• This lower division lecture serves as an introduction to Middle East politics, with an emphasis on statebuilding, regional and international relations, political economy, and authoritarianism and democracy (Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2020 (part virtual)).

Political Islam

• This upper division seminar is an in-depth examination of Islamist political parties and organizations in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, encompassing questions of Islamist moderation, regime-opposition relations, why citizens vote for Islamist parties, and the role of women in the Islamist movement (Spring 2017, Spring 2018).

Political Violence

• This upper division seminar examines the phenomena of political violence short of interstate war.  Students will read broadly about why civil wars, terrorist campaigns, and insurgencies begin, persist, and end (Fall 2017).