Teaching & Mentorship
Teaching & mentorship
My teaching focuses on African politics, ethnicity, nationalism, and migration and citizenship. As a first-generation college student myself, I care about opening doors for international students, first-gen students, transfer students, and others who took a unique path to where they are.
Select courses
Graduate
The Politics of African Migration
Theory and Policy in Africa
Land, Conflict and Identity (Tutorial)
Migration and Citizenship Theory (Tutorial)
Undergraduate
Women and Politics in Africa
Nationalism and Ethnicity in Africa
Peace and Conflict in East Africa
Migration In and From Africa
Co-Founder & Co-Director
Political Science Pathways Consortium
A regional consortium offering a one-week, fully funded summer institute to broaden access to research and doctoral study in political science.
Co-founded with Dr. Diana Kapiszewski · Co-Director, Dr. Katherine Collin · Learn more →
80+
participants
41%
first-generation
50%
on to grad school
Doctoral advising
Current
Ankushi Mitra · Chair
PhD Candidate, Georgetown University
Jessica Norris · Committee member
PhD Candidate, Georgetown University
Ciara Silke · Committee member
PhD Candidate, LSE
PhD Student, Georgetown University
Graduated
Sara Fischer · Chair
Assistant Professor, University of Puget Sound
Andrew Marshall · Chair
Lecturer, Baylor University
Abrehet Gebremedhin · Committee member
Adjunct Instructor, Teachers College, Columbia University
Endalkachew Mulugeta · Committee member
Assistant Professor, Debremarkos University
I have supervised 60+ undergraduate theses through the African Studies Program, and advise master’s students across Georgetown.
Teaching & mentoring awards
2024Gerald M. Mara Faculty Mentoring Award, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
2022Excellence in Mentoring Award, School of Foreign Service
2017James Slevin Award for Engaged Scholarship, Center for Social Justice
2017Faculty of the Year, School of Foreign Service Academic Council