Courses taught at Michigan State University
Undergraduate courses

World History  |  History 150
A world history survey covering 1500 CE to the present.

Historical Methods and Skills  |  History 201
A methods course with variable topics, my past sections have had the following subtitles:

• The Turkish Republic: Successes and Shortcomings
  
• The Eastern Question
  
• World War I and the Middle East
  

The Middle East: Islam and Empires  |  History 372
A history of the early Middle East, from the rise of Islam through the decline of the Ottoman Empire and the intrusion of European empires.

The Modern Middle East: From Empires to Nation-States  |  History 373
A history of the modern Middle East, from the last decades of the Ottoman Empire and the increasing presence of the West to the present day.

Seminar in Comparative History  |  History 487
An undergraduate seminar covering variable topics, my past sections had the following subtitles:

• Histories of Education in Islamic Societies
  
• Modernization and Middle East Nation-States
  
• Women and Gender in the Middle East
  

Area Studies: The Middle East  |  Integrative Studies in Arts and Humanities 211-D
An interdisciplinary general education course, past sections have covered topics such as:

• Nations and Narrations
  
• Women and Islam

Graduate courses

Seminar in Comparative History  |  History 850
A graduate-level survey of special topics, past sections that I taught have engaged with histories of both the Middle East and the Mediterranean regions.