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Instructor at Sciences Po Paris

Corruption and Economic Favouritism (master’s level): Spring 2025
Co-taught with Cyril Benoît and Mihály Fazekas to students at Central European University and Sciences Po
Description:This CIVICA (The European University of Social Sciences) course provides participants with analytical and methodological tools for the detection, measurement, and prevention of corruption and economic favoritism in the policy process. Students explore the underlying factors and mechanisms that lead to corrupt practices and biased policymaking processes. In addition, by examining the stages of policymaking and distributive policies, participants can recognize potential points of intervention and reform. Students will gain insights into successful strategies to prevent favoritism employed in different countries and formulate a policy agenda to foster accountable decision-making and promote public interest.

Teaching Experiences at New York University

As a teaching assistant at New York University, I taught weekly recitation classes and developed recitation content for the below courses. Moreover, I held office hours and graded homework and exams. At NYU, I also completed a two-semester Teaching and Learning certificate program. 

  • Political Theory (core undergraduate course, POL-UA 100): Fall 2017, Fall 2015
    Instructor: Dimitri Landa
    Description: The course provides an introduction to political theory through the analysis of seminal historical and contemporary texts. It focuses on the critical issues of the distinct nature of public morality, the structure and defense of liberty, equality and justice, and the different models of democratic politics. The readings include selections from the works of Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Adam Smith, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Madison, Mill, Marx, and Rawls.
  • Power and Politics in America (core undergraduate course, POL-UA 300): Fall 2013
    Instructor: Patrick Egan
    Description: An introductory course on the national politics of the United States. The course includes discussions of America’s political institutions and political culture, and examines how elections and political parties, in combination with strong interest groups, produce the type of representative democracy observed in the United States. In addition, it places American politics in a comparative perspective. The course also introduces students to the analytical and empirical tools that political scientists use to describe, explain and understand politics and public affairs.
  • Quantitative Methods in Political Science (undergraduate course POL-UA 800): Fall 2016
    Instructor: Arthur Spirling
    Description: The course provides students with an introduction to probability theory, research design, and statistics with a view to testing hypotheses about politics. Students will learn a “toolbox” of methods — including statistical software — to organize and analyze data.
  • Quantitative Methods in Political Science (undergraduate course POL-UA 800): Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014
    Instructor: Gizem Acikgoz
    Description: This class is an introduction to the logic and the mathematics of statistics, with an emphasis on social-science applications. Topics include basic descriptive statistics, the logic of causal order, bivariate regression, multiple regression analysis, probability, confidence intervals, significance testing, regression diagnostics, multicollinearity and heteroskedasticity. Lab sessions include training in the computer application Stata.