Teaching

Courses

I teach comparative politics, the political economy of gender, and the politics of climate change at both the undergraduate and graduate level. I also serve as Vice-Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Political Science.

Undergraduate

• Political Economy of Gender

  How gender shapes political and economic life, and how women’s rights evolve across time and space.

• Introduction to Comparative Politics

  Why countries are governed so differently, and how political scientists explain it.

• Women in the Political Pipeline (WIPP) Initiative

  Non-partisan training on how to run for office, through a partnership with Emerge California, paired with research on why women are underrepresented.

Graduate

• Politics of Climate Change

  How fossil fuels concentrate power and money, and why that makes climate action so politically difficult.

• Politics of Gender

  Why gender inequality arises and why it lasts, from the U.S. Congress to Indian villages.

• Comparative Political Economy

  How a country’s wealth gets produced and distributed — and whether governments spend it, share it, or steal it.

• African Politics

  Why political and economic outcomes across Africa vary so much, between countries and over time.

• Research and Writing (PS 290)

  Guides second-year PhD students through an independent research project, from first question to finished draft.