In addition to my research activities, teaching has been at the center of my academic career since my undergraduate studies. Between 2010 and 2013, I worked as a K–12 teacher, mentoring students with learning difficulties in a private school in São Paulo, Brazil. During the same period, I was an intern for the Secretary of Environmental Education of the State of São Paulo. Since 2018, I have taught history, philosophy, and political science at the Sorbonne, Sciences Po Paris, Bielefeld University, the Leibniz University Hannover, the University of Potsdam, and the Charles University in Prague, in both undergraduate and graduate programs. In the spring and summer of 2022, I was an Erasmus+ visiting lecturer at the University of Southampton and at the University of Vienna. I also taught at the University of Chicago’s Vienna Human Rights program in the summers of 2022 and 2023. Between 2025 and 2029, I will be a Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Amazonas, where I will teach at Brazil’s flagship graduate program on the Amazon rainforest. During the same period, I will be a Visiting Professor of History at the Federal University of the Southern Border, founded in 2009 to serve the members of rural social movements in three Brazilian states: Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, and Santa Catarina.

Across eleven institutions and seven countries, in four different languages, I have acquired experience in higher education teaching lecture courses (50–110 students), small-group seminars (10–15 students), and one-on-one tutorials.

Between 2021 and 2023, I co-supervised undergraduate theses on queer critical fabulation, the decolonization of the Dominican Republic, the massacre of Algerians by the Parisian police in 1961, and the development of anticolonial thought in West African newspapers.

In 2021, I also joined the Mentoring Program of the Burma Studies Group (Southeast Asian Council of the Association for Asian Studies), acting since then as a mentor to two students whose academic and professional careers were impacted by the 2021 coup d’état in Myanmar.

During my first year at UC Irvine, I will be teaching the following courses:

  • Field Study Writing Seminar (Undergraduate course, Winter 2026)
  • What Is Civil Disobedience? (Graduate seminar, Winter 2026, cross-listed with the Critical Theory Emphasis)
  • Civil Disobedience and the Law (Undergraduate course, Spring 2026)
  • Ethics and Politics of Justice (Undergraduate course, Spring 2026)
  • What Is Conservatism? (Freshman Seminar Program, Spring 2026)
  • Field Study Seminar (Undergraduate course, Summer 2026)
  • Critical Race Theory (Undergraduate course, Summer 2026)

Previous Courses

  • Conceptualizing Violence
  • What Is Civil Disobedience?
  • History of Black Political Thought
  • Twentieth-Century Social Thought
  • Bias, Ignorance, and Knowledge
  • Authority and Resistance (Knox, Hobbes, Locke, and Berkeley)
  • African American Encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean

As a Teaching Assistant

  • Florence Haegel, Introduction to Political Science
  • Annabelle Lever, Introduction to Political Theory
  • Aleksandar Rankovic, Politics in the Anthropocene: Science, Power, and Justice
  • Sergei Guriev, Political Economy of Populism and Autocracy
  • Nicole Klein, Case Studies in Public Policy: The ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes
  • Anthony Dworkin, Human Rights in International Politics
  • Tawanda Mutasah, Promoting Human Rights: History, Law, Methods and Current Controversies
  • Marcia Schenck, Global History Dialogues (grader)

As a Tutor (at Sciences Po Paris)

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