Teaching Overview

People working in academia often lament that we speak of “teaching burdens” but “research opportunities.” I hope to invert this script. Teaching is my opportunity to help pass on knowledge to the next generation of students, and I both enjoy and highly value it as part of my academic experience. My efforts paid off in 2021, when I was awarded UC Berkeley’s Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award. But don’t take my word for it—see what my students have to say.

My teaching interests cover a wide breadth of topics in comparative politics and international relations. Although my main research experience is in Chinese politics, I have also taught courses on other countries, including Japan and Russia, as well as topic-based courses that cover multiple regions. The table below summarizes the courses I have taught as a TA or GSI*; this page contains more detailed course information.

*The University of California system uses GSI, or Graduate Student Instructor, to describe what other universities would generally call a TA, or Teaching Assistant.