Teaching


I have taught undergraduate and graduate courses on world politics and the European Union in Germany, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Please find a complete list below, including course syllabi where available. 

 

Graduate Teaching

 

SS 2018 – Global and Regional Governance

Seminar, University of Goettingen, Germany

» Course syllabus (German)

WS 2017/18 – Legitimacy and Legitimation in International Relations

Seminar, University of Goettingen, Germany
» Course syllabus (German)

SS 2017 – Global and Regional Governance

Seminar, University of Goettingen, Germany

» Course syllabus (German)
 

WS 2016/17 – Design of International Organizations

Seminar, University of Goettingen, Germany

» Course syllabus (German)


SS 2015 – International Relations: Regional Organizations

Seminar, University of Goettingen, Germany
» Course syllabus (German) 


WS 2014/15 – Europe in the World

Seminar, University of Goettingen, Germany
» Course syllabus


SS 2014 – Multilevel Governance in Europe

Seminar, University of Goettingen, Germany
» Course syllabus


SS 2013 – Selected Issues in European Politics and Multilevel Governance

Seminar (co-taught with Ben Crum), Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands


Undergraduate Teaching


WS 2016/17 – Introduction to International Cooperation between States

Seminar, University of Goettingen, Germany


SS 2015 – Globalization and Global Governance

Seminar, University of Goettingen, Germany
» Course syllabus (German)


WS 2014/15 – Power in World Politics

Seminar, University of Goettingen, Germany
» Course syllabus


SS 2014 – Introduction to EU Studies and Comparative Regionalism

Seminar, University of Goettingen, Germany
» Course syllabus (German)


WS 2013/14 – International Organizations

Seminar, University of Goettingen, Germany
» Course syllabus (German)  


HT 2009 – Economics of European Integration, Introduction to European 
Integration, and Introduction to International Relations

Tutorials at Worcester College, Hertford College, and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Oxford University, UK


HT 2008 – Introduction to International Relations

Tutorial, Wadham College, Oxford University, UK


SS 2004 – Macroeconomic Theory

Tutorial to lecture, University of Osnabrück, Germany


Thesis Supervision


I am currently (co-)supervising the following PhD dissertations:

  • Mariel Reiss, Marburg University (2016-), topic: policy diffusion between regional organizations in Africa
  • Leonardo Bandarra, GIGA (2016-), topic: nuclear latency and the global non-proliferation regime
  • Jessica Gomes, GIGA (2017-), topic: leadership and institutional change in Mercosur and the EU
  • Swantje Schirmer, GIGA (2018-), topic: human rights and the legitimation of regional organizations in Latin America and the Middle East
  • Niklas Krösche, GIGA (2018-), topic: legitimation dynamics in the African Union


Completed dissertation:

  • Insa Ewert, GIGA (2015-2017, submitted), title: "The China Watchers: EU Trade Policy in the Making"


2013 – present: At the University of Goettingen, I have supervised 40 BA and MA theses in various political science programmes at the Institute of Political Science as well as in the MA Euroculture.


Student evaluations and my teaching statement are available upon request.