TEACHING

Yale University, Yale Young Global Scholars Program (Undergraduate)

Lead/Senior Instructor for International Affairs and Security Session (former Grand Strategy session) and Politics, Law and Economics.

Designed and led the following seminars: 

• International Affairs and Security (IAS):

IAS_KP_1: Capabilities and Limitations of Military Power in Dealing with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)

IAS_KP_2: Religion, Culture, and International Conflict after 9/11

IAS_KP_3: Terrorist Decision-Making

IAS_KP_4: WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden: Global Media and National Security

IAS_KP_5: Why Sudden Attacks Succeed Despite Intelligence Warnings?

IAS_KP_6: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• Politics, Law and Economics (PLE)

PLE_KP_1: Is there an American nationalism?

PLE_KP_2: Reporting on War: The Power of Media to Shape and Influence Public Understanding of Violent  conflict

PLE_KP_3: The Rise of Religion in Global Politics

PLE_KP_4: The Responsibility to Protect: Moral dilemmas between illegal and legitimate actions in political decision-making

PLE_KP_5: The Idea of Europe and Challenges to EU governance.

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Yale University, Yale Divinity School, Teaching Fellow 4.0, Spring 2013

Transitional Moments in American Christianity  REL 700 01 (S13), (Graduate, Led and grade two sections at the graduate level),

This course focuses on critical moments and important developments in the evolution of US Christian cultures from the European Conquest to the present.  While the approach is loosely chronological, it is not intended as a comprehensive survey.  This course instead adopts an approach which views religious belief, institutions and practices as central in forging communities and maintaining divisions among peoples and it focuses on moments when religion was an important factor in shaping the political and social order it also reflected.  From the initial encounters between native peoples, enslaved Africans and Europeans to the emergence of a new republic after the Civil War, we will look both at the ways various peoples in the “New World” came to define themselves through religion and how dominant actors worked to dominate outsiders by employing differing conceptions of religion.

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Yale University, Teaching Fellow 3.5,  fall 2012

The Hero in the Ancient Near East HUMS 441b /NELC 121b (Writing Requirement Course, Undergraduate, Lead and grade one section ),

Exploration of the interaction of religion, history, and literature in the ancient Near East through study of its heroes, including comparison with heroes, heroic narratives, and hero cults in the Bible and from classical Greece.

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Online learning: Coursera:

Yale University, The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for international and Area Studies), 2014

An online course Moral Foundations of Politics with Dr.Ian Shapiro

“Moral Foundations of Politics” starts with a survey of major political theories of the Enlightenment—Utilitarianism, Marxism, and the social contract tradition—through classical formulations, historical context, and contemporary debates relating to politics today. It then turns to the rejection of Enlightenment political thinking. Lastly, it deals with the nature of, and justifications for, democratic politics, and their relations to Enlightenment and Anti-Enlightenment political thinking. Practical implications of these arguments are covered through discussion of a variety of concrete problems.