Courses:
At Ohio State, I was the instructor of record for an upper-level course on political violence over seven semesters. My syllabus for this course and others are available on request, and I am particularly interested in further developing courses on international order, IOs, global governance, and specialized courses on human rights, race, and Africa/postcolonialism in international relations as well as courses on qualitative or field research methods.
Training & Awards:
I am a dedicated and award-winning instructor of record. I received 15 hours of specialized training in inclusive teaching from the Drake Institute, including anti-racist assessment and transparent course design. I have implemented this training by incorporating different ways of participating in class, including seminar style discussions and small group work, as well as increasing student self-reflection and self-evaluation on aspects of their grade, like participation. Furthermore, I recently completed a week-long training in Croatia on teaching key concepts in international relations through games and simulations, and I am excited to implement this training in the classroom.
In 2026, I received a university-wide Graduate Associate Teaching Award, Ohio State’s “highest recognition of the exceptional teaching provided by graduate students,” as well as an Outstanding Writing Instruction Award (honorable mention) in 2023 for my development of a scaffolded research design assignment.
Pedagogical Approach:
In my course on political violence, I used creative assignments to facilitate critical thinking, like scavenger hunts for students to uncover sites of political violence on campus. For their final projects, I asked students to teach one another key concepts/cases of political violence through any format other than powerpoint. As a result, these projects ranged from Jenga games representing instability during the Troubles and hand-drawn comic books on race and political violence to choose-your-own adventures on the determinants of civil war.
See some of their work below:
This group simulated an escape room and students were given different puzzles to solve to understand the use of media in political violence. 
Hand-drawn comic strips taught the relationship between political violence and race. The group used comic strips, the typical superhero storytelling format, because they were inspired by Menaka Philips’ article in the APSR, “Violence in the American Imaginary: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Superheroes.” 
This game was created by scratch and led the different actors through a variety of scenarios to represent proxy wars and violence. 
A magazine — including articles, advertisements, personality quizzes, and word-search games, on political violence for vulnerable populations like women and LGBTQ+. 
A board game on the causes and effects of genocide. 
To advance in the board game, students were asked questions about genocide based on peer-reviewed literature. 
For this Jenga game, each block holds research on the people, places, and events around the Troubles in Northern Ireland, where the precarity of the game collapsing at any moment represents the instability and uncertainty of the Troubles. 
A Jeopardy game on the relationship between the media and political violence 
Based on a traditional Clue game!