Teaching interests

Authoritarian politics and leadership, social science methodology, Russian and post-Soviet politics, subnational politics, experimental research in social sciences

Courses taught

Primary Instructor

University of Richmond

  • Dictators and Rebels (Spring 2025, Fall 2025)
  • Quantitative Social Science (Fall 2024, Spring 2025)
  • Theories and Models of Leadership (Spring 2024)
  • Leadership and the Social Sciences (Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025)

University of Rochester

  • Inside the State: Subnational Politics in Comparative Perspective (Spring 2022) 
  • Russian Politics (Fall 2021)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Introduction to Comparative Politics (Spring 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2021)
  • Contemporary Latin American Politics (Fall 2017, Fall 2019)
  • Introduction to European Government (Fall 2018)