Teaching

My research and my teaching inform one another. Some of my best ideas have come from classroom discussions with students, and I often enjoy testing ideas and arguments from my ongoing research agenda on students. I have taught the following courses as the primary instructor:

University of Regensburg

  • The 1970s (Seminar)
  • Afghanistan and the Great Powers (Seminar)
  • American Conservatism: Intellectuals, Movements, Institutions (Seminar)
  • Central Asia from Independence to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 1991-2022 (Seminar)
  • The Cold War: A Global History (Lecture/Seminar)
  • Colloquium in Transregional History (Colloquium)
  • Colonization and Decolonization in Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, and Eurasia (Colloquium)
  • Decolonization and the End of European Empires (Lecture)
  • Global History: Methods, Approaches, Sources (Seminar)
  • History Lab: Mit digitalen Archiven forschen und wissenschaftliche Kurzvideos produzieren am Beispiel der digitalisierten Archive des Völkerbundes (Seminar)
  • Intellectuals and Decolonization (Seminar)
  • The Iranian Revolution: A Global History (Lecture)
  • Regional Histories of the Cold War: Europe, the Middle East, Asia (Seminar)
  • Russia’s Wars (Seminar)
  • Tips, Tricks and Hacks: How to Design, Write and Revise a Research Project in the Humanities and Area Studies (Seminar)
  • Topics in Intellectual History: Hannah Arendt (Seminar)
  • Topics in Intellectual History: Malcolm X (Seminar)
  • Transregional Eurasia, 1850s-Present (Lecture)
  • Trauma and Cultural Production in Post-Conflict Societies: Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon (Seminar)
  • What Is American Conservatism? (Seminar)

Freie Universität Berlin

  • The Global Cold War (Seminar)
  • Global History of Development (Seminar)
  • Global History MA Colloquium (Colloquium)
  • Der Kalte Krieg im globalen Kontext (Seminar)
  • Racism In International Relations (Seminar)
  • Rise and Fall of Russian Global Power (Seminar)
  • Russia and the Middle East (Seminar)
  • The Russian Worlds of Islam (Seminar)
  • Socialism Internationalism in History (Seminar)

Harvard University

  • Eurasia in the Twentieth Century (Seminar)