Guest Lectures
“China’s Economic Miracle.”
Type: Undergraduate guest lecture
Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes with Q&A
Delivered: November 2022, November 2021, November 2020I developed this guest lecture in Fall 2020 while working as a GSI for Varieties of Capitalism. In 2021 and 2022, Professor Steve Vogel invited me back to present it as a guest speaker, and I made updates to reflect current events and changes to the course syllabus. After a brief overview, the lecture is divided into three sections:
1) Why did economic reform succeed in China, but fail in the former Soviet Union?
(Answer: It’s more complicated than “Big Bang Bad, Gradualism Good.”)
2) Is there a “China Model” which other countries can follow?
(Answer: Not the way you might think. It’s about improvisation, not control.)
3) Is China the world’s next economic superpower?
(Answer: Maybe, but a lot of challenges still remain.)
“Authoritarian Resilience: China as a Case Study?”
Type: Undergraduate guest lecture
Runtime: 3 hours with break and Q&A
Delivered: April 2022
I developed this guest lecture while working as a GSI for Dictatorship and Its Discontents. The first half of the presentation is devoted to comprehensively unpacking the related concepts of “authoritarian resilience” and “regime longevity,” as well as the fundamental epistemological challenges of measuring either. From there, the presentation critically evaluates three claims about why the Chinese Communist Party is a fragile ruling system, then identifies eight potential sources of authoritarian resilience and evaluates how each has grown or weakened under Xi Jinping.
“Warming the Chilly Classroom: Strategies for Improving Gender Equity in Section Participation.”
Type: Presentation at a graduate student pedagogy colloquium
Runtime: 30 minutes with Q&A
Delivered: December 2019I developed this presentation in a concluding colloquium for a graduate seminar on pedagogy hosted by the UC Berkeley’s Political Science Department. In it, I review the literature about the gender gap in classroom participation; identify strategies which I adopted in PS 143 (Japanese Politics, Fall 2019) to remediate this gap; and empirically evaluate the effectiveness of those strategies.
As TA or GSI*
PS 141A: Russian Politics
Role: GSI
Primary instructor: M. Steven Fish
Student level: Undergraduate, upper division
Term: Fall 2022
Mode: In-person
University of California, Berkeley
PS 149W: Dictatorship and Its Discontents
Role: GSI
Primary instructor: Jason Wittenberg
Student level: Undergraduate, upper division
Term: Spring 2022
Mode: In-person
University of California, Berkeley
PS 139D: Urban and Subnational Politics in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Role: GSI
Primary instructor: Alison Post
Student level: Undergraduate, upper division
Term: Fall 2021
Mode: Mostly in-person
University of California, Berkeley
PS 2: Introduction to Comparative Politics
Role: Head GSI
Primary instructor: M. Steven Fish
Student level: Undergraduate, lower division
Term: Spring 2021
Mode: Remote
University of California, Berkeley
PS 138E: Varieties of Capitalism
Role: GSI
Primary instructor: Steven Vogel
Student level: Undergraduate, upper division
Term: Fall 2020
Mode: Remote
University of California, Berkeley
PS 143B: Japanese Politics (2020)
Role: GSI
Primary instructor: T.J. Pempel
Student level: Undergraduate, upper division
Term: Spring 2020
Mode: Remote from March onward
University of California, Berkeley
PS 143B: Japanese Politics (2019)
Role: GSI
Primary instructor: Deirdre Martin
Student level: Undergraduate, upper division
Term: Fall 2019
Mode: In-person
University of California, Berkeley
SOC 1101: Introduction to Sociology
Role: TA
Primary instructor: Anna Haskins (now at Notre Dame)
Student level: Undergraduate, lower division
Term: Spring 2018
Mode: In-person
Cornell University
SOC 2220: Controversies About Inequality
Role: TA
Primary instructor: Anna Haskins (now at Notre Dame)
Student level: Undergraduate, upper division
Term: Fall 2017
Mode: In-person
Cornell University
It’s Zhidezhimen (the Gate of Knowledge and Virtue) at Suzhou High School.
* The University of California system uses GSI, or Graduate Student Instructor, to describe what other universities would generally call a TA, or Teaching Assistant.