Teaching assistant for G. John Ikenberry (Spring 2025). Course Description: Grand strategy is the broad and encompassing policies and undertakings that political leaders pursue- financial, economic, military, diplomatic- to achieve their objectives in peacetime and in war. This course examines the theory and practice of grand strategy both to illuminate how relations among city-states, empires, kingdoms and nation states have evolved over the centuries and also to identify some common challenges that have confronted all who seek to make and execute grand strategy from Pericles to Barack Obama.

Teaching assistant for Rory Truex (Fall 2024; Recipient, Princeton University Graduate School Teaching Award). Course Description: This course provides an overview of China’s political system. It begins with a brief historical overview of China’s political development from 1949 to the present. The remainder of the course examines the key challenges facing the current generation of CCP leadership, focusing on prospects for democratization and political reform. Among other topics, it examines: factionalism and political purges; corruption; avenues for political participation; village elections; public opinion; protest movements and dissidents; co-optation of the business class; and media and internet control.

Teaching assistant for James Vreeland (Spring 2024). Course Description: This course is about international cooperation and sacrifice and takes a political-economy approach. We consider global organizations: the United Nations, World Bank, IMF, and WHO; and regional ones: the European Union, Asian Development Bank, and African Development Bank. We also consider China’s new institution, the AIIB. We examine their origins and effectiveness, and the interests of powerful members, like the US and China, as well as countries in Latin America and Africa.

Teaching assistant for Naima Green-Riley (Fall 2023). Course Description: This course reviews and analyzes the foreign policy of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 to the present. It emphasizes Beijing’s relations with the US as well as examines its dealings with the USSR, Asia and the developing world. It explores the changes and continuities in the PRC’s foreign policy during three periods; 1) the era of Mao Zedong’s dominance, 2) the reform era begun under Deng Xiaoping and 3) the turn back toward authoritarianism since the advent of Xi Jinping.