I have taught a range of courses across International Relations, International Law, and history. My teaching has been recognized with a number of distinctions, including Leiden University’s 2020 Casimir Prize, awarded to the best lecturer across the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences.

At Leiden I designed and taught the compulsory module Global History to first-year undergraduates. A large lecture course delivered to roughly 400 students, Global History covers the years 500 CE to the present, with an emphasis on the period 1400-1900. It aims to equip students of international relations not only with a factual grasp of key world historical events, but also with a historiographic apparatus that enables them to think critically about the uses and abuses of history in contemporary politics.

A major aim of this course is the decentering of Europe and the West more broadly in global historical narratives. Student feedback consistently emphasized the degree to which this course fundamentally transformed their perspective on both the past and contemporary international relations. This course was the highest-rated lecture course in the department on the basis of student evaluations every year I taught it.

In 2022 I was one of five professors university-wide to be elected to the Leiden Teacher’s Academy. This honor came with a €25k award to develop a project on the basis of my Global History course, titled “Overcoming Polarization: A Program of Research-Based, Inclusive Teaching Methods for a Global University.” One of the aims of this project is to scale the pedagogical approach I developed in teaching this potentially divisive subject matter to a highly diverse student body. My eventual goal is to transform my teaching materials from this course into a textbook for the teaching of global history to students of international relations.

I also developed and delivered a large introductory lecture course for second-year undergraduate students entitled International Law and Human Rights, as well as a master’s seminar on the history of international relations since 1400. I supervised theses at undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral level, including through an undergraduate thesis seminar entitled Global Legal Treaties 1648-1914. This seminar united my teaching with my research interest on the history of international law and my work with the Oxford Historical Treaties Database.

Prior to arriving at Leiden I taught a number of tutorial-style classes on international relations theory, transitional justice and post-conflict state-building, and 20th-century history at the University of Oxford. Other courses I have taught include research methods and public speaking.

I have completed the Dutch University Teaching Qualification (BKO).