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 Jewish 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. I am also currently a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the Federal University of Santa Maria.

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

At UC Irvine, I have taught 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)
  • But What Is Conservatism? (Undergraduate seminar, Spring 2026, Freshman Seminar Program)
  • Field Study Writing Seminar (Online, Undergraduate course, Summer 2026)
  • Critical Race Theory (Undergraduate course, Summer 2026)
  • Augusto Boal, Games for Actors and Non-Actors (Undergraduate seminar, Spring 2026, Freshman Seminar Program)

I will also teach the following courses as a CAPES Visiting Professor:

Federal University of Amazonas

Federal University of Santa Maria

  • Fabulations: Toni Morrison and Saidiya Hartman (Fall 2026)
  • Academic English for Philosophers (Fall 2026)

Federal University of the Southern Border

  • Meaning and Understanding in Black Intellectual History (Spring 2027)
  • Academic English for Historians (Fall 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
  • 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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