teaching resources
NAVIGATING GENERATIVE AI IN THE CLASSROOM
This presentation unpacks the challenges of AI in higher education classrooms and presents different pathways instructors can use to navigate AI in the classroom in service of helping students develop critical thinking and discernment around this technology.
SECURITY STUDIES SYLLABUS (FALL 2025)
This is the syllabus for my Fall 2025 Security Studies course taught as part of the Security and Risk Management MSc program at the Univeristy of Copenhagen.
CITY CLIMATE CHANGE GOVERNANCE RECORDED LECTURE
Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Energy
Part 3: Transportation and Housing
Part 4: Greenspaces
Part 5: Recycling
Part 6: Emergency Preparedness, Action, Networks, and Wrap-up
The recorded presentation here is free for non-commercial, classroom use. If you use any of the resources, I just ask that you let me know! I am also happy to provide a guest lecture on this topic for your class or organization.
CITY CLIMATE CHANGE GOVERNANCE LECTURE SLIDES
The Google slides presentation here is free for non-commercial, classroom use. If you use any of the resources, I just ask that you let me know! I am also happy to provide a guest lecture on this topic for your class or organization.
teaching philosophy
To execute models of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (CRP, Ladson-Billings 1995) and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (CSP, Paris 2012) in my instruction, I use project-based learning (PBL), team learning, experiential learning, and universal design for learning (UDL). Using these four practices, I feel that I am able to help create a learning environment where each student feels valuable and capable of learning as their best selves.
DRAFT Syllabus: Introduction to International relations
This is a draft syllabus I have built for an Introduction to International Relations course.
DRAFT SYLLABUS: CLIMATE CHANGE, ENVIRONMENT, AND FILM
This is a draft syllabus I have built for a course on “Climate Change, Environment, and Film.”
SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT: IR FILM ANALYSIS
To evaluate your understanding and application of the four main theories of IR that we will cover in this class (realism, liberalism, constructivism, and critical approaches) you will have the option of watching one of the following movies and completing a response essay on it.
Options:
Children of Men (2007)
Arrival (2016)
Barbie (2023)
Black Panther (2018)
Sample Assignment: nuclear missile simulation
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) has for decades pursued its nuclear ambitions to the dismay of both Western countries and its neighbors in East Asia. It recently announced the successful launch of a satellite from a three-stage rocket, and U.S. and allied intelligence services conclude that North Korea now possesses the reentry technology for an intercontinental ballistic missile that could reach the North American west coast. The director of national intelligence informs the president that the missile launch, combined with North Korea’s ongoing nuclear tests and its mastery of warhead miniaturization technology, means the country is capable of following through on past threats to fire a nuclear-armed missile against the United States. The president has called a National Security Council (NSC) meeting to discuss how to respond to North Korea’s enhanced capabilities.