My teaching interests include the history of political thought, liberal and democratic theory, and Renaissance studies.
I am also eager to teach politics, philosophy and economics, the philosophy of social science, and Italian political theory.
Syllabi and student evaluations available on request.
Teaching Experience
Instructor of Record
UCLA
University of Chicago
Introduction to Political Theory (Winter 2024; Spring 2024)
Liberalism and its Critics (Spring 2024)
Classics of Social and Political Thought I
Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Machiavelli (Fall 2021 — 2023)
Classics of Social and Political Thought II
Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau (Winter 2021 — 2023; Winter 2016)
Classics of Social and Political Thought III
Tocqueville, Mill, Marx, Nietzsche, Du Bois (Spring 2021 — 2023; Spring 2015)
Teaching Assistant
University of Chicago
Florentine Political Thought
John McCormick (Fall 2017)
Classics of Social and Political Thought I
James Lindley Wilson (Fall 2013)
Classics of Social and Political Thought II
Jennifer Pitts (Winter 2014)
Classics of Social and Political Thought III
Robert Gooding-Williams (Spring 2014)
Prospective Courses
Introduction to Political Theory
Modern Political Thought
Contemporary Political Thought
Humanism and Republicanism in Renaissance Italy
Elites and Democracy: 20th Century Democratic Theory
Money and Markets: Theories of Capitalism in the History of Political Thought
Conservative Political Theory: Realism and its Critics
Italian Political Theory from Petrarch to Gramsci