I have taught political theory at the University of Toronto, Georgetown University, Colorado College and Cornell University. I am particularly proud of the modern political thought course, Freedom, I designed and taught at Colorado College and Cornell University. In that course, students were introduced to thinkers ranging from Thomas Hobbes to James Baldwin to Wendy Brown. We began our study of the fundamental questions “what is freedom?” and “what does freedom require?” by turning to early modern social contract theorists, then considered critiques of liberalism and capitalism, and ended with an examination of the competing visions of freedom that inform the American imaginary. We read thinkers who attend to the legacies of slavery and we interrogated the role of prophetic language and the idea of redemption in American political thought and practice.
Freedom syllabus below.