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
  • PLSC 414: Dictators and Their Demise (synchronous online), Summer 2021​ (syllabus)​
​Guest Lecturer
  • “Regimes and Society” in PLSC 3: Comparing Politics around the Globe (synchronous online), Spring 2021, February 21
  • “Authoritarianism” in PLSC 3: Comparing Politics around the Globe (synchronous online), Spring 2021, March 25
  • “Political Globalization” in GLIS 101: Globalization, Spring 2020, February 18
  • “Autocracies: Survival and Succession” in AFR 192: Modern African History, Spring 2018, April 3​
​Teaching Assistant​
  • 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, 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