Teaching and Learning

Graduate Writing Bootcamp

The Graduate Writing Bootcamp is a three-part video series that I developed for our students in the M.S. program in International Relations at Troy University. Because our student population includes many first generation/non-traditional students and individuals whose undergraduate degree was not in the social sciences, it’s not always a given that students know the mechanics of good academic writing. This video series aims to help students understand the “hidden curriculum” of academic writing.

The following videos can be found on YouTube:

• Part I: The Writing Assignments You Meet In Graduate School (26 minutes)

• Part II: Avoiding Common Pitfalls (34 minutes)

• Part III: Writing the Literature Review (37 minutes)

My Course Offerings (Troy University)

* Syllabi for current courses are available only to students and colleagues. Please see below for access to some of my past syllabi.

• Survey of International Relations (Graduate)

• Violence in Latin America (Graduate)

• Latin American Security (Graduate)

• Theory and Ideology in International Relations (Graduate)

• Comparative Politics of Latin America (Graduate)

• Contemporary U.S. Foreign Policy (Graduate)

• Latin American Political Economy (Graduate)

• Conflict Processes (Graduate)

• Comparative Politics of Western Europe (Graduate)

• Political Violence and Terrorism (Graduate)

• Women, Peace, and Security (Graduate)

Previous course offerings

**See linked course names for syllabi, where available. 

• Civil Wars (Graduate seminar, Duke University)

• Politics in Violence (Duke University)

• Gender and Conflict (Duke University)

• International Law (Miami University, Sweet Briar College)

• Gendering International Relations (Miami University, Bucknell University)

• Introduction to International Relations (Miami University, Bucknell University, Sweet Briar College)