“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 revolutions and political development, comparative politics, African political development, political regimes and democratization, global development, and qualitative and comparative-historical methods of social inquiry.
Collegiate Assistant Professor, The College, University of Chicago
- Global Society: Research Methods, Spring 2026
- Global Society: World Social & Political Theory, Fall 2025, Fall 2024
- Global Society: Research Practicum, Spring 2024
- Global Society: Population & Society, Winter 2024
- Global Society: World Social Theory, Fall 2023
Instructor of Record, Northwestern University
- Introduction to International Development, Winter 2020
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University, 2018-2020
- Politics of the Middle East, Spring 2020
- Global Development, Fall 2019
- Introduction to Comparative Politics, Spring 2019
- Political Economy of Development, Winter 2019
- Politics of Civil Wars, Fall 2018
- U.S. Foreign Policy, Spring 2018
- Introduction to International Relations, Winter 2018
- Introduction to Comparative Politics, Fall 2017
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
