Image from Lesekreis, Wikimedia Commons I love this quote from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, when Humpty Dumpty says to Alice: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” Now, the political science research is...
Image from “Return to the Isle of Ted,” PS: Political Science and Politics (July 2020) In my team-taught, interdisciplinary course on climate change, my priority in my political science section was to help my students understand collective action problems—when people...
Brochure title page from the Her Majlis exhibition, Hamad bin Khalifa University Art Gallery, September 2015. Full brochure accessible here. Authentic learning is a teaching approach that gets students involved in real-life experiences to promote active...
When I was studying comparative politics of the Middle East for my PhD at Georgetown University, one of my professors suggested minoring in American politics because, he said, “Universities always need someone who can teach the intro American politics class.” I cannot...
Collaboration and teamwork are my favorite aspects of academia! I firmly believe that knowledge is strengthened by diversity. My research, while grounded in political science, has been greatly enhanced by the interdisciplinary teams of researchers and undergraduate...
