University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

PS 250 Social Movements & Contention (undergraduate lecture)

From the Civil Rights Movement and the Arab Spring, to anti-femicide activism and gun rights advocacy, ordinary people have risen up and shaped history. Why do social movements emerge despite risks of repression? How do people overcome barriers to collective action? How do their strategies for organizing resistance differ, and with what consequences? This course is designed to answer these questions and others by examining the causes, dynamics, and consequences of social movements and other forms of contentious politics.

PS 458 Forced Migration and Refugees (undergraduate seminar)

Internal and cross-border forced displacement are at historic levels. Who is a migrant, who is a refugee, and who makes those determinations? Why do people seek refuge, where do they go, and will they return home? Which countries and institutions should aid and host refugees, and do they? Do humanitarians meet refugees’ needs? This course is designed to answer these questions and others by examining the causes, dynamics, and consequences of forced migration.

PS 523 Qualitative Methods (graduate seminar)

This graduate seminar is an introduction to qualitative methods of analysis and qualitative data collection in political science. We consider strategies for systematic research based on small numbers of cases with attention to issues of conceptualization, measurement, and analysis. Topics covered include causal inference, interpretive analysis, cross-case comparison, within-case process tracing, interalia, as well as data collection methods including archival and interview-based research. We also discuss approaches to multi-method research.

Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section, American Political Science Association

APSA Short Course: “Ethics and Fieldwork in the Middle East and North Africa,” 2024

Northwestern University

Introduction to Comparative Politics, 2021

Service-Based Teaching

English tutor (volunteer), Refugee and Immigrant Community Services, Heartland Alliance, Chicago, 2018
English instructor (volunteer), United Nations Relief and Works Agency, Damascus, Syria, 2009