Teaching

I am excited to be developing and teaching my own full bachelor-level courses in Comparative Politics / Political Behavior with a gender perspective. To foster students’ research skills, I like to combine literature-intensive sessions with applied sessions on academic writing, research design and/or data analysis.

I teach a one-year “Gender and Politics” course that covers gender differences in voting, ideology and political participation, gendered political candidate recruitment, gender quotas, violence against women in politics, role model effects and backlash dynamics against feminism. The course also guides students in conducting their own empirical research on a related topic. As such, it also includes sessions on academic writing, and introductory sessions to research design and basic survey and expert data analysis.

My course on the “Political Behavior of Marginalized Groups” considers theories of representation, intersectionality and social identity, and the political behavior of different genders, ethnic minorities, disabled people and LGB people, as well as social class differences in political behavior. To enable students to conduct some first analyses of group differences in political behavior themselves, the course also entails an introduction to descriptive visualization of quantitative survey data in R.

I teach “Introduction to Political Science” at the bachelor level, in which I introduce first-semester bachelor students to important concepts studied across different fields in political science and the most commonly applied research designs applied in these fields.

In a one-year master-level course called “Research Colloquium in Comparative Politics“, I first teach a variety of approaches to research design, common biases in research and how to avoid them. Then, I guide students in developing their own research project throughout several feedback rounds.

Previously, as a teaching assistant, I have taught on courses in Political Science, European Studies, research design and quantitative methods in English, Swedish and German language.

I enjoy supervising students in writing their Bachelor and Master theses in the fields of political behavior, the populist radical right, and gender and politics.