Along with research, I hope to contribute through teaching, which I take quite seriously.  I seek to imbue my students with a passion for international relations (IR) and inspire them to apply IR theory as a powerful tool to understand, critique, and solve problems in the real world.  My teaching style places a premium on providing individual attention to the student, and fostering an intellectually diverse environment in which students can develop their critical thinking, writing, and public speaking skills.

As a Teaching Assistant at UC Davis, I crystallize course content and objectives through an array of teaching methods.  At the beginning of class, I spend about ten minutes integrating current events into a summary of the week's lecture material.  Afterward, I routinely break the students into groups of four or five, to actively discuss and debate class topics.   I invite my students to speak extemporaneously, which they find challenging but rewarding, as it truly helps them synthesize course themes and key discussion points.  Occasionally, I will give my students a mock-exam, to prepare for an upcoming midterm or final, after which we discuss and review key concepts.  If a class paper is assigned, I devote time to help my students develop their main arguments with supporting details from the readings and lectures.

My teaching repertoire is broad and flexible.  For the past several years, I have served as a teaching assistant for the undergraduate course, ``Introduction to International Relations,'' and will therefore be quite comfortable with teaching a similar course.  Closer to the dissertation, I would feel very comfortable teaching a course on the sources and consequences of anti-American sentiment, and a general course on the nature and origin of mass public opinion.  In addition, my work on the nature of the Transatlantic gap would make me a suitable candidate to teach a course on U.S.-EU Transatlantic relations.  Related to my work as a PPNT Fellow, I would also be well-suited to teach courses on both U.S. foreign policy and nuclear proliferation.  I envision teaching one course on the challenges of weapons of mass destruction in a terrorist age, in which the United States and other powers must contend with non-state actors such as Al Qaeda and their designs to secure and use nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.  With that said, I am quite flexible with my teaching duties.