Teaching
Teaching
My teaching asks students to approach history as an active form of inquiry. I encourage them to read closely, ask how knowledge is produced, compare interpretations, and think critically about sources, concepts, and historical narratives.
This course introduces students to major concepts, debates, actors, and historical contexts in the study of political Islam. It examines religion and politics through questions of modernity, colonialism, state power, social movements, ideology, media, and public life.
This course examines the histories and contemporary experiences of ethnic and religious minorities in the Middle East through empire, nationalism, citizenship, violence, memory, migration, and coexistence.
This course introduces students to Islamic traditions, texts, practices, institutions, and historical debates while emphasizing the diversity of Muslim societies across time and place.
I supported this interdisciplinary course on Middle Eastern humanities, culture, history, and society.
I supported discussion and grading for a course introducing students to central questions in political thought and political life.
I supported a survey of the modern Middle East, with attention to empire, colonialism, nationalism, social change, and political transformation.
I supported a course on imperial rule, social hierarchy, institutions, and political life in the Roman world.
I supported a course introducing students to Islamic civilization, intellectual traditions, institutions, and modern transformations.
Before my doctoral work, I taught high school seniors and recent graduates preparing for university entrance exams in Turkey. These courses shaped my early teaching practice and my interest in explaining complex historical and philosophical problems clearly.