This page offers an overview of my teaching and the intellectual through-lines that organize it. It brings together brief course descriptions, thematic roadmaps, and snapshots of the core questions and concepts that structure each class session, as well as links to dedicated course pages where I document readings and evolving lecture themes over time.
My teaching focuses on how power is organized, justified, and contested, and how ordinary institutions, laws, and moral frameworks shape political life. I design courses that pair core sociological theory with empirical cases, asking students to move between concepts and evidence: how violence and nonviolence are produced and managed, how religion functions as a social institution within changing political economies, and how states and movements construct authority, legitimacy, and belonging. Across courses, I emphasize careful reading, analytic writing, and disciplined argumentation. Students practice identifying claims, tracing causal mechanisms, evaluating sources, and translating complex debates into clear, public-facing analysis. The goal is to build durable skills: thinking sociologically about urgent problems while staying attentive to method, uncertainty, and the limits of what our evidence can support.
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