Currently Teaching

  • Terrorism: New Challenges (U.S. Military Academy - Department of Social Sciences)

  • Tools and Analysis of Counterterrorism (Pennsylvania State University - World Campus)

As Instructor of Record

  1. Tools and Analysis of Counterterrorism, Pennsylvania State University (Graduate, Fall 2023)

  2. Terrorism: New Challenges, U.S. Military Academy (Undergraduate, Spring/Fall 2020-2023)

  3. Comparative Ethnicity, University at Albany, SUNY (Undergraduate, Summer 2018; Winter 2018/2019)

As Guest Lecturer

  • “Nirooye Qods: The Iranian IRGC Quds Force”, Beginning Persian (undergraduate), Fall 2020 (USMA - Dept. of Foreign Languages)

  • “Shia Militias’ Media: A Discussion & A Research Project”, Intermediate Persian (undergraduate), Fall 2019 (USMA - Dept. of Foreign Languages)

  • “The Kurds and Nation-Building”, Nationalism and Nation-Building (undergraduate seminar), Fall 2019 (SUNY-Albany)

  • “Theories of Foreign Policy Analysis”, Field Seminar in International Relations (graduate seminar), Fall 2017 (SUNY-Albany)

  • “Regime Legacies of Communism in Democracy-Building”, Building Democracy (undergraduate seminar), Fall 2017 (SUNY-Albany)

  • Graduate Workshop on Introduction to Stata, Collaborator and Assistant, Fall 2017 (SUNY-Albany)

  • “Introduction to Western European History”, Introduction to Comparative and International Politics (undergraduate), Fall 2016 (SUNY-Albany)

Teaching Awards

  • William F. Murdy Award for Teaching Excellence - US Military Academy (May 2021)

  • Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in Political Science - SUNY-Albany (Spring 2017)

Courses Interested in Teaching:

  • Proxy Warfare and Asymmetrical Conflict

  • Political Violence

  • Political Science Methods & Computation

  • Comparative Ethnicity/Ethnic Studies

  • Politics of the Middle East