Executive Education · Instructor · Jan 2026
An introduction to impact evaluation for policymakers, focused on determining whether a policy or program actually causes changes in outcomes, starting from the logic of counterfactuals and directed acyclic graphs and moving through randomized controlled trials and quasi-experimental methods like regression discontinuity and difference-in-differences.
Graduate · Instructor · Spring 2026
This seminar introduces the logic behind social science research design, with public policy as the keystone topic, covering both epistemological questions and the mechanics of crafting and evaluating policy research. Students learn to collect and describe data, run correlation and regression analyses to evaluate policy outcomes, and recognize core inference problems such as confounding, selection bias, and measurement error.
Graduate · Instructor · Fall 2024
This course surveys the major concepts, debates, and tools for designing, implementing, monitoring, and iterating public policy. Students learn to diagnose policy issues, apply the main instruments of policy design, compare alternatives on viability and sustainability, and measure and iterate on policy performance.
Undergraduate · Teaching Fellow for Dustin Tingley · Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021
This course, offered to working professionals through Harvard's Extension School, introduces the analysis of the causes and character of international conflict and cooperation. It presents major theories of international relations and applies them to historical and contemporary cases. It also covers cooperation under international anarchy, bargaining theory and the causes of war, and the roles of psychology, leaders, and domestic politics, along with international institutions, terrorism, and climate change. The course concludes with international law and the future of international relations.
Undergraduate · Teaching Fellow for Joshua D. Kertzer · Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2020
This course examines America's role in international politics, introducing major IR theories and applying them to current debates over US foreign policy. The first half covers the inputs to policy, including the presidency, Congress, bureaucratic politics, public opinion, and interest groups, while the second half addresses major issues such as the rise of China, terrorism, and emerging military technologies.
Undergraduate · Teaching Fellow for Stephen Rosen · Spring 2019
This course introduces undergraduates to theories and historical cases for studying the interdependence of war and politics, with special emphasis on psychological, societal, and technological factors. Students finish with a broad understanding of strategic studies and the history of modern warfare.
Undergraduate · Teaching Fellow for Muhammet Bas · Spring 2016, Spring 2017
This course combines a literature review of rationalist approaches to international conflict and war with an introduction to game theory, using models like the Prisoner's Dilemma, Chicken, and bargaining games. Students learn how these tools explain why states fight costly wars, why negotiations fail, how deterrence works, and how domestic politics shapes conflict.
Undergraduate · Teaching Fellow for Jeffry Frieden · Fall 2016
This course examines the politics of the international economy, covering trade, money and finance, multinational production, and economic development. It surveys major theoretical perspectives in the field and pairs historical cases, such as the gold standard and the Euro crisis, with contemporary issues like globalization and inequality.