Teaching

This page contains information on the courses I teach, students evaluations and samples of class syllabi.

Graduate Supervision

I am happy to supervise students interested in democratization, authoritarianism, electoral and party politics, digital democracy, representation of women and minorities.

Current Graduate Supervision

Student	Type	Start Date	Thesis Project
Michael Desormeaux	Doctoral Student	Sep 2021	Smart Cities and Digital Authoritarianism
Aye Lei Tun	Doctoral Student	Sep 2021	Community Resilience under Authoritarianism: A Comparative Study of Myanmar and Thailand
Rebecca Denyer	Doctoral Student	Sep 2021	The Rise of Pandemic Biometric Surveillance and Digital Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia
Cassandra Preece	Doctoral Student	Sep 2019-	“Agents and Agency: Investigating Substantive Representation in Indigenous Language Policymaking in Asia Pacific”
Helen Beny	Doctoral Student	Sep 2018-	“Digital Repression in East Africa”
Garima Sarkar	Doctoral Student	Sep 2018-	“Dynasties and Wealth: Women’s Access to Political Power in India”

Graduate Seminars (McMaster)

Poli Sci 740: Theories of Comparative Politics
Poli Sci 716: Comparative Authoritarianism
Poli Sci 765: Gender and Politics of Representation (Reading Course)
Poli Sci 765: Digital Threats to Democracy (co-taught with Dr. Tony Porter)
Pub Pol 708: Digital Democracy: Threats and Responses (co-taught with Dr. Tony Porter)

Undergraduate Courses (McMaster)

Poli Sci 3LC3: Southeast Asian Politics
Poli Sci 4KC3: Comparative Democratization
Poli Sci 3H03: Honours Issues in Comparative Politics (Digital Authoritarianism)

Reading Group (College of Alice and Peter Tan, NUS)

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Teaching Evaluations (McMaster University)

Year	Term	Course	Response Rate	Student Evaluation
2022	Winter	Poli Sci 740	80%	9.13
2021	Fall	Poli Sci 3LC3	21%	9.5
		Poli Sci 716	50%	9.3
		Pub Pol 708
2021	Winter	Poli Sci 740
		Poli Sci 3H03	20%	8.5
2020	Fall	Poli Sci 4KC3	60%	8.8
		Poli Sci 3LC3	57%	8.1
2019	Fall	Poli Sci 3LC3	32%	9.07
		Poli Sci 740	43%	9.0
2018	Winter	Poli Sci 4KC3	65%	9.27
		Poli Sci 740	50%	9.66
2017	Fall	Poli Sci 3LC3	65%	9.41
		Poli Sci 716	67%	7.0
2017	Winter	Poli Sci 3LC3	79%	9.68
		Poli Sci 716	82%	9.6
2016	Fall	Poli Sci 4KC3	85%	9.35
		Poli Sci 740	80%	8.5
2016	Winter	Poli Sci 4KC3	85%	9.67
		Poli Sci 3H03	81%	8.92
2015	Fall	Poli Sci 3LC3	81%	9.12
		Poli Sci 740	57%	9.5
2015	Winter	Poli Sci 3H03	90%	9.21
		Poli Sci 4KC3	85%	9.27
2014	Fall	Poli Sci 740	90%	8.9
		Poli Sci 3LC3	60%	9.52
2014	Winter	Poli Sci 740	100%	9.63
		Poli Sci 3LC3	61%	9.24
2013	Fall	Poli Sci 3H03	70%	8.43
		Poli Sci 4KC3	94%	7.4
2013	Winter	Poli Sci 740	100%	6.71