My teaching centers on comparative and global approaches to history. I treat the classroom as a space where students engage critically with multiple worldviews and confront how power, identity, and imagination shape both the past and the stories told about it. I encourage students to question dominant narratives, trace connections across regions and empires, and approach history not as a fixed account but as an evolving conversation shaped by context and perspective.
I have designed and taught a broad range of courses across Middle Eastern, global, and thematic history. These courses invite students to move between local cases and global structures, developing the analytical tools to connect infrastructures, ideas, and political transformations across historical and geographic contexts.
Courses Taught
Princeton University
Islam and Modern Politics: Explored how Islamic thought, reform movements, and political activism engaged with modernity across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
University of Michigan
Nations and Nationalism: Examined how identities, borders, and myths were constructed and contested across imperial and colonial contexts.
Columbia University
Armenians and the Modern World: Traced Armenians as transimperial and transnational actors within broader histories of displacement, genocide, mobility, and diaspora.
Norwich University
History of the Middle East: A survey from antiquity and the rise of Islam to the contemporary period, emphasizing state formation, empire, colonialism, and social change.
Introduction to International Studies: Introduces global political and historical frameworks, encouraging students to think across regions and disciplines.
Israel and Palestine: Places the conflict in long historical and comparative perspective, including parallels with cases such as the Kurdish question.
Upcoming Course
History of Technology and Warfare: A new course examining how technological innovation has shaped military power, strategy, and society from antiquity to the modern age. It builds on my research into empire, infrastructure, and the global circulation of ideas, materials, and technologies.
Sample syllabi available upon request.
