I have many years of teaching experience at Yeshiva University and within the City University of New York system, and I have taught widely in the fields of Political Theory, Philosophy, American Politics, and Constitutional Law.

As with my research on subjectivity, in the classroom I similarly realize that education is as much about personal transformation as it is about learning course material. Consequently, my approach focuses on helping students of all backgrounds develop into confident, engaged, and critical individuals, so that their education serves as a lifelong source of personal independence and community involvement. To this end, my methods involve course and assignment design that draws students into the classroom, helping them develop the confidence to share their own unique experiences of the world with their classmates, so that diversity serves as an irreplaceable classroom asset. This is then supplemented with course material that cultivates the skills that help students become more self-aware of the influence that their experiences hold on them, so that they can become more critical of, and engaged with, the world that we share. As my research demonstrates, a critical attitude towards the world begins with the confidence and ability to question oneself, and this is a spirit that animates my classroom, and that has contributed to many years of confident, happy, engaged, and deeply critical students.

In addition to my many years of teaching experience, I have also served as a Writing Fellow with the Writing Across the Curriculum Program at Brooklyn College. In this role, I was responsible for developing and implementing an interdisciplinary, college-wide, writing-intensive curriculum, that focused on developing critical reading, writing, and thinking skills. This position allowed me the unique opportunity of developing effective teaching practices, both across and within disciplines, that were capable of speaking to many different types of learners, and that were sensitive to the needs of students at one of the nation’s most diverse colleges.