“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

My teaching interests include comparative and African politics, political sociology, revolutions and political development, comparative political economy of development, global development, and qualitative and comparative-historical methods of social inquiry.

Assistant Professor, The College, University of Chicago

  • Global Society: Social Thought (Fall 2024, Fall 2023), Population Studies (Winter 2024), Research Practicum on Race and State (un)Making (Spring 2024)

Instructor of Record, Northwestern University

  • Introduction to International Development, Winter 2020

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University

  • Politics of the Middle East, Spring 2020
  • Global Development, Fall 2019
  • Introduction to Comparative Politics, Spring 2019, Fall 2017
  • Political Economy of Development, Winter 2019
  • Politics of Civil Wars, Fall 2018
  • U.S. Foreign Policy, Spring 2018
  • Introduction to International Relations, Winter 2018

Lecturer, Eritrea Institute of Technology, Eritrea, 2008-2011

  • Postcolonial African Politics
  • Power and Politics in the Horn of Africa
  • International Relations I & II
  • Introduction to Political Science

Graduate Assistant, University of Asmara, Eritrea, 2004-2006

  • Political Systems of the Middle East
  • Introduction to Political Science