At Tufts, I direct the major in Civic Studies.
I have taught the following undergraduate courses at Tufts:
- Introduction to Civic Studies, annually since 2018
- Introduction to Public Policy, 2020, 2021, 2024, 2026
- 20th Century Political Philosophy (2025)
- Hannah Arendt (2026)
- The Political Philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King, 2020, 2021.
- Introduction to Philosophy, 2016 and 2017
- Education for Active Citizenship, 2012
- Facebook, Social Networking, and Community Organizing, 2009
I have also frequently taught in contexts beyond academia:
- The annual Summer Institute of Civic Studies at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship & Public Service (Tufts University), each year from 2009-2019. Enrolled graduate students, faculty, and activists from many countries.
- An annual European Summer Institute of Civic Studies, at Chernivtsi University (Ukraine) in 2015, Augsburg (Germany) in 2016, Chernivtsi in 2017, the Munich area in 2018, and a short version at the Kyiv School of Economics in 2025.
- “Citizenship and Deliberative Democracy,” a seminar for professors at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City, 2014.
- High school classes on various civic topics, taught weekly between 2002 and 2007 at Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, MD.
Before moving to Tufts in 2018, I had taught these courses:
- An interdisciplinary graduate proseminar on Politics, Philosophy, and Public Policy, co-taught (three times) with colleagues from Philosophy and Government and Politics at the University of Maryland.
- Political Theory and Philosophy of Law, undergraduate lecture courses offered by the University of Maryland Philosophy Department in the late 1990s.
- A graduate seminar on Information Technology Policy, co-taught (twice) with Robert Wachbroit in the Maryland School of Public Affairs.
- Wittgenstein and Moral Philosophy, two continuing education seminars offered by Georgetown University in 1991-3
- Tutorials on Nietzsche and Schopenhauer offered through Brasenose College, Oxford, 1990-1.