Undergraduate, University of Alabama
The Israel-Palestine Conflict (Fall 2023) Social Bodies (Spr 2023) On the Politics of Souls (Spr 2022) Religion, Politics, and the Law (Spr 2020) On the Color Line and the Jewish Question, with Utz L. McKnight (rev. Fall 2022) Graduate, University of Alabama Religion and/in Global Politics (Fall 2022) Critical International Relations Theory (Fall 2019) International Relations Theory (1): Realism (Spr 2013) International Relations Theory (2): Liberalism (Fall 2013) PCON 111: Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies (Colgate University, 2009-2011) PCON 225: Theories of War, State and Society (Colgate University, 2009-2011) CORE 174: Multiethnic Israel: The Politics of Overburdening (Colgate University, 2009-2011) 191.319: Changing Faces of Conflict: Issues in National Security (Johns Hopkins University, 2007-2008) 191.410: Defending the Nation: Israel’s Culture of National Security (Johns Hopkins University, 2006) |
Public Lectures & Community Outreach
- "Historical Context: the Israel-Palestine Conflict." The Other Club, University of Alabama, 22 October 20223; Christ Episcopal Church, (Tuscaloosa, AL) 18 November 2023; 'Introduction to Security Studies,' Wartburg College (Waverly, IA; via Zoom), 22 November 2023, with Andrew Szarejko.
- "Famous Jewish War Heroes?" Temple Emanuel (Tuscaloosa, AL), 22 October 2023.
- "An Israeli Civil War: from Shared Secret to Public Imaginary." Tuscaloosa Takes on the World, 7 September 2023, with Daniel Bertrand Monk.
- "What Should We Remember?" Alabama Jewish Culture and History Symposium, 25 July 2023, Temple Beth Or (Montgomery AL) and the Alabama Folklore Society
- "Political Theology and the Politics of Empire." Graduate Seminar, ASPECT/Virginia Tech, April 2023.
- “Bryan Stevenson, the Memorial for Peace and Justice, and Public Memory in Alabama.” Tuscaloosa Takes on the World, 15 February, 2023, with Waleed Hazbun.
- “Crafting a Warrior Idiom.” Studying Religion in Culture, UA Department of Religious Studies, posted 8 February 2023.
- “The Mirror and Public Memory in Israel,” Tuscaloosa Takes on the World, 31 January, 2023, with Waleed Hazbun and Misha Hadar.
- “In the Shadow of No Future: Justice Claims in Israel/Palestine.” Studying Religion in Culture, UA Department of Religious Studies, posted 27 January 2023.
- "Jewish Communal Memory Practices in Rural Alabama." Jewish Folklike in Alabama Contact Group, 8 September 2022 (via Zoom).
- “Restraint, Anxiety, Faith: Global Politics at the End.” Studying Religion in Culture, UA Department of Religious Studies, posted 16 August 2022.
- “Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine.” Tuscaloosa Takes on the World, 2 March 2022; with Waleed Hazbun, Margaret Peacock, Oleg Kyselov, Elif Kalaycioglu, and Pat Duggins.
- “What do We Owe the World? What Does the World Owe Us?” Tuscaloosa Takes on the World, 1 December 2021, with Waleed Hazbun and Pat Duggins.
- “Where No Counsel Is, the People Fall.” Tuscaloosa Takes on the World, 2 November 2021, with Waleed Hazbun, Elif Kalaycioglu, and Pat Duggins.
- “After Afghanistan” Tuscaloosa Takes on the World, 5 October 2021, with Waleed Hazbun and Pat Duggins.
- “On the Israel-Gaza Conflict: A Community Conversation.” Monarch Coffee, Tuscaloosa AL, 26 May 2021; with Waleed Hazbun and Misha Hadar.
- “What Just Happened?” Political Science/A&S Faculty Roundtable on 2020 Elections, January 2021 (via Zoom).
- Question and Answer Session on Recovering International Relations: The Promise of Sustainable Critique with graduate students from POLS 870: International Relations (University of Kansas), led by Dr. Brent J. Steele, December 2012
- Question and Answer Session on the Israel-Palestine Conflict, University of Alabama International Relations Club, November 2012
- "Occupy Tel Aviv?: The July 14 Protests, the Statist-Radical Divide, and the Retreat of the Israeli State" Pomona College Pizza & Politics Series, February 2012
- “Jewish Settlements and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Past as Prologue?” What’s Up in the Middle East? (Community Question and Answer Session, Sponsored by the American Jewish Committee and the Muslim Students Association at Colgate University, March 2010
- “Neo-Liberal Institutionalism,” delivered before undergraduate seminar led by Prof. Renée Marlin-Bennett: Global Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University, Spring 2008
- “Israeli Foreign and Security Policy at 60: The Road to Nowhere?” Israel at Sixty, Community Lecture, Johns Hopkins University Smokler Center for Jewish Life, April 2008
- “Engaging your Students with Texts,” TA training workshop, Center for Educational Resources, Johns Hopkins University, Spring 2006
- “Ali Salem: Tourism and the Promise of Israeli-Egyptian Reconciliation,” delivered before undergraduate seminar led by Dr. Waleed Hazbun: Patterns of Global Tourism, Johns Hopkins University, Fall 2005
- “Civil-Military Relations in Israel,” lecture before visiting undergraduates, Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies and the Tel Aviv University Program for Overseas Students, Summer 2002