Teaching

I am a committed, engaged teacher. I value engagement with students as an end unto itself. But much of my research has also taught me that classrooms and lecture halls serve as invaluable laboratories and incubators of new ideas–from Adam Smith’s development and promulgation of his system of liberal political economy to JM Keynes’s revolutionary heterodoxy. I find such dynamic environments particularly valuable, as I like to work out ideas in conversation with others and, yet, I hesitate to publish these ideas until I am quite confident that they reflect my best thinking on the matter.

I began teaching (in the field of history) at Stanford University as a PhD student–under two Pulitzer Prize-winning historians, no less! I subsequently moved into political science, where I taught under several of the most dynamic and engaging teachers in the field. I then taught for several years at Middlebury College in Vermont.

Since 2013, I have been teaching in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Here, most of my essential teaching as been in the field of International Political Economy at the Master’s level. This has included a growing role in designing and delivering the “core” course for the (nearly 100) students in the MSc in IPE programmes. This is the second largest (Master’s level) course offered by our department. On several occasions, I have convened, and given all of the lectures on, that course.

I have also served as director of the MSc in IPE programme. I currently serve as a director of the LSE-Sciences Po (Paris) double degree programme.

Beyond this, I have taught in related subjects and areas in IR and history more broadly; and I have taught extensively in affiliated programmes and a number of other non-affiliated programmes in several other countries. I currently convene the core (undergraduate) IPE course for the 400+ students in the University of London International Programme.

Further details are available via the pages listed on the left.