Teaching

My courses ask students to work with the primary materials of each field: the survey items and scales behind political psychology’s findings, the texts of political theory in their own words, and the cases and constitutional text in law.

POS 4206 · Political Psychology

Fall 2026. Theories of political attitudes and behavior, taught alongside how political psychologists measure them, with The American Voter Revisited as the anchor text.

POT 4314 · Contemporary Democratic Theory

Fall 2026, online. Competing justifications and criticisms of democracy, read as live arguments and organized around Carl Schmitt’s challenge to liberal democracy. The course ends in an oral exam.

POT 4025 · Political Ideas that Built the West

Spring 2026. The history of political thought read through primary texts, including Hobbes and Locke.

POS 4603 · American Constitutional Law I

Fall 2025. The Constitution’s institutional powers and constraints, with a group project in which students draft and present a constitutional amendment.

POS 2041 · American National Government

Fall 2025. The introductory course on American institutions, rights, and political behavior.