Classes Taught

The University of Copenhagen

  • International Relations 2 (7.5 ECTS)
    Introductory BA IR class, 300 students, lectures on Marxism and Critical Theory;
  • International Relations 3 (7.5 ECTS)
    Introductory BA IR class, 300 students, lectures on New Materialism;
  • Knowledge and Methods (7.5 ECTS)
    MA class for the Security Risk Management program, complete course development, teaching, and grading, 45 students;
  • Approaches to International Conflicts: From Theory to Methods (15 ECTS)
    MA class for the Political Science program, complete course development, teaching, and grading, as well as ‘coordination’ of the specialization in Conflict Resolution, 45 students;
  • Global Violence and Political Evil (15 ECTS)
    MA elective class for the Political Science program, complete course development, teaching, and grading.
  • Knowledge Production and Evaluation (7.5 ECTS)
    MA class for the Security Risk Management program, complete course development, teaching, and grading, 45 students.

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

  • Violence Without Borders (6 ECTS)
    MA elective class; complete course development, teaching, and grading;
  • The Politics of Digital Design (3 ECTS)
    MA elective class, complete course development, teaching, and grading;
  • Theories and Theorists of International Relations (6 ECTS)
    MA class, co-taught, lectures on the work of Karin Fierke and workshop organization;
  • Visual Archives of Violence (6 ECTS)
    MA class, co-taught, complete course development, teaching and grading;
  • Designing Against Violence (9 ECTS)
    Applied Research Programme course, complete development, teaching, and grading;
  • Theory for Thought (No credit)
    Directed social theory reading group, co-convened with Anna Leander;
  • Visual Global Security (6 ECTS)
    MA class, co-taught, complete course development, teaching and grading;
  • Qualitative Methods in International Relations and Political Science (6 ECTS)
    MA class, co-taught, selected lectures.
  • Violence, Memory and Cinema: Comparative Perspectives (6 ECTS)
    MA class, co-taught, complete course development, teaching and grading;
  • Political Violence and Social Theory (6 ECTS)
    MA class, co-taught, lectures on ethnography and political violence;
  • Research Design and Qualitative Methods (6 ECTS)
    MA class, teaching assistant (grading, running full seminars, course development);
  • Political Economy of Development (6 ECTS)
    MA class, teaching assistant (grading, running full seminars, course development);
  • Negotiation and Regulation (6 ECTS)
    MA class, teaching assistant (grading, running full seminars, course development);
  • Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect (6 ECTS)
    MA class, teaching assistant (grading, running full seminars, course development);
  • Water Management: Global Theories, Local Realities (6 ECTS)
    MA class, teaching assistant (grading, running full seminars, course development);

Other

  • Making Fieldwork Work
    Invited teaching workshop, Institute for International Relations Prague;
  • Savage Semiotics and War
    Invited teaching workshop, University of Tartu;
  • The Practice Turn and World Politics
    Invited three day teaching workshop, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.

Phd supervision

I have co-supervised (equal co-supervision) two PhD’s to completion and currently supervise a further four doctoral candidates.

  • Dr. Alice Baroni
    Equal co-supervision with Keith Krause, 2017 – 2022
    Defended summa cum laude with the congratulations of the jury
    Thesis Title: Imperfect Struggles: Jewish-Israeli Activists for Palestinian Rights and the Paradoxes of Solidarity from a Position of Power.
  • Dr. Miguel Iglesias Lopez
    Equal co-supervision with Anna Leander, 2018 – 2021
    Defended summa cum laude;
    Thesis Title: International Borderwork: Politics of the Margins in EU Border Management Assistance in Central Asia;
  • Mr. Nijat Eldarov
    Secondary supervisor, with co-supervisor Maja Zehfuss, 2022 –
    Preliminary Thesis Title: Conceptualizing security devices through critical new materialisms.
  • Mr. Massimiliano Masini
    Equal co-supervision with Michelle Weitzel, 2022 –
    Preliminary Thesis Title: Commemorating internationalist volunteers
  • Mr. Thomas Gmür
    Equal co-supervision with Anna Leander, 2019 –
    Preliminary Thesis Title: Dysfunctional Democracy: Towards an ergotherapy of the political
  • Ms. Asees Puri
    Equal co-supervision with Elisabeth Prügl, 2019 –
    Preliminary Thesis Title: Surreal Tales: Socio-Technical Enactments of Violence

ma supervision

Since 2017, I have also supervised approximately 10 MA dissertations each academic year. This includes MIA, MDEV, and disciplinary MA dissertations at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, as well as MA in Political Science and MA in Security Risk Management dissertations at the University of Copenhagen.

Formal pedagogical training

In 2022, I completed the ‘Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Programme’ (TLHEP) at the University of Copenhagen. The TLHEP is a Danish-government certified training programme designed to provide training to ensure the best possible organization, provision, and evaluation of teaching practices in higher education. This included both a focus on practical teaching tools, drawing on cutting-edge pedagogical methods, and more in-depth theoretical and conceptual work on the foundations of good pedagogy. The programme involved approximately 175 hours of intensive pedagogical training.

teaching leadership & initiatives

  • From 2022 onwards, I am the leader of the programme specialization ‘Conflict Resolution and International Relations’, which forms part of the University of Copenhagen’s MA in Political Science. I coordinate the specialization, conduct all administrative tasks, coordinate with lecturers and teaching assistants, prepare the substantive content of the specialization, and ensure it is constructively aligned with other aspects of the MA in Political Science;
  • From 2022, I have collaborated with the Head of Studies at the University of Copenhagen (Lars Tønder) and faculty colleagues to improve the integration of research and teaching within the MA in Political Science. This has focused on revising the Conflict Resolution and International Relations specialization to focus on the development of research skills (both academic and non-academic) that will be applicable for their future careers.
  • In 2022, I conducted a teaching research project – Visualizing evil: Avoiding trauma when teaching political violence – which focused on the challenge of teaching political violence to university-level students in our hyper-mediated contemporary violence. Exposure to images of political violence is commonplace, and is also an increasingly important part of research in the field. This project explored pedagogical strategies for integrating such material without doing harm to students;
  • Between 2017 and 2021, I co-convened (with Anna Leander) a directed social theory reading group – Theory/Thought – that introduced graduate students (MA and PhD level) to cutting-edge theoretical texts of relevance to their studies. The programme was outside the formal curriculum but designed to provide skills otherwise attainable to students. The average attendance during the programme was approximately ten students each semester.