Teaching
Teaching Interests
- Comparative politics; autocratic politics; democratization; democratic backsliding
- Methods for political research; quantitative analysis; game theory
- Politics of Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong; politics of East Asia and Southeast Asia
Teaching Experience at the Pennsylvania State University
Coures Instructor
Coures Instructor
- PLSC 414: Dictators and Their Demise (synchronous online), Summer 2021 (syllabus)
- “Games of Incomplete Information” in PLSC 410: Strategy and Politics, Fall 2021, December 1
- “Tipping Models” in PLSC 410: Strategy and Politics, Fall 2021, November 29
- “Authoritarianism” in PLSC 3: Comparing Politics around the Globe, Spring 2021, March 25 (synchronous online)
- “Regimes and Society” in PLSC 3: Comparing Politics around the Globe, Spring 2021, February 21 (synchronous online)
- “Political Globalization” in GLIS 101: Globalization, Spring 2020, February 18
- “Autocracies: Survival and Succession” in AFR 192: Modern African History, Spring 2018, April 3
- PLSC 410UP: Strategy and Politics, Fall 2021
- PLSC 410WC: Strategy and Politics (asynchronous online), Fall 2021
- PLSC 3: Comparing Politics around the Globe (synchronous online), Spring 2021
- GLIS 101: Globalization (mixed mode), Spring 2020
- AFR 192: Modern African History, Spring 2018
- AFR 110: Introduction to Contemporary Africa (asynchronous online), Spring 2018
- PLSC 1: Introduction to American Government, Fall 2017