I teach on topics including political geography, feminist and decolonial approaches to global politics, race and the politics of difference, humanitarianism, development, and critical security studies. Regionally, my teaching draws connections between the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, taking a geographical approach to how political and economic issues are produced through connections between different places. I treat US militarism as a particular geography that connects places I teach about within the United States, such as bases and weapons productions plants, to people and places shaped by wars abroad, from the Middle East to the expanding geography of the war on terror on the African continent.
My teaching digs into the causes and consequences of global war and violence. I have taught courses for the general public on "Twenty Years of War: The Causes and Consequences of the Post-9/11 Wars," and courses for students ranging from college freshmen to PhD candidates. You can read more about how I teach the costs of war in my interview with the Costs of War's Educator Spotlight series.
My teaching digs into the causes and consequences of global war and violence. I have taught courses for the general public on "Twenty Years of War: The Causes and Consequences of the Post-9/11 Wars," and courses for students ranging from college freshmen to PhD candidates. You can read more about how I teach the costs of war in my interview with the Costs of War's Educator Spotlight series.
2025. Public lecture and MLK Day Seminar on The Costs of War Project, Colorado College. Full lecture here.
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Recently, I have developed new courses on Political Violence, where first year undergraduates interrogate definitions of violence and how they are formed through the spatial and racial politics of difference, and Caribbean Worlds, which examines key categories of political analysis such as the state and the economy from the perspective of the Caribbean. Caribbean Worlds brings rich interdisciplinary traditions from political economy to painting to provide perspectives from Black political and feminist thought. I have also taught seminars on Feminist and Decolonial Approaches to International Relations, Contemporary Security Challenges, and Humanitarianism in Uniform, which helped students come to an understanding of how militarization and humanitarianism are produced through one another.
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I bring these foci to supporting PhD research on war and militarization through the White Rose Dissertation Training Program, where I was deputy director of the security, conflict and justice pathway and deputy directory of Sheffield's PhD program before I took research leave to direct a Carnegie Reimagining US Foreign Policy study.
My courses combine social theory with real-world empirical problems to allow students to think about the world around them through the "lens" of different theoreticians. Combining theoretical frameworks from critical human geography, political economy, postcolonial studies, and feminist studies, I encourage students to think about how places are produced through global interconnections. I have enjoyed working with students at various points on the higher education pipeline, from teaching college freshmen to advising undergraduate and graduate student theses on diverse topics from immigration and borderlands to climate politics and abolition. I love integrating writing pedagogy into my teaching and have developed a number of resources over the years to support student growth as writers and researchers. I see writing as an iterative process and typically devote a portion of regular class meetings to different elements of the research and writing process.
Many of my students have gone on to work for nonprofits, NGOs and other development organizations, as well as pursue professional and academic graduate degrees. I see my job as equipping students with the conceptual tools to understand the institutions in which they may work, and the global problems they may confront.
My courses combine social theory with real-world empirical problems to allow students to think about the world around them through the "lens" of different theoreticians. Combining theoretical frameworks from critical human geography, political economy, postcolonial studies, and feminist studies, I encourage students to think about how places are produced through global interconnections. I have enjoyed working with students at various points on the higher education pipeline, from teaching college freshmen to advising undergraduate and graduate student theses on diverse topics from immigration and borderlands to climate politics and abolition. I love integrating writing pedagogy into my teaching and have developed a number of resources over the years to support student growth as writers and researchers. I see writing as an iterative process and typically devote a portion of regular class meetings to different elements of the research and writing process.
Many of my students have gone on to work for nonprofits, NGOs and other development organizations, as well as pursue professional and academic graduate degrees. I see my job as equipping students with the conceptual tools to understand the institutions in which they may work, and the global problems they may confront.