Selected Courses Taught:

University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

Conflict in the Caucasus From Imam Shamil to the Second Russo-Chechen War

Critically Assessing the Historic Roots of Terrorism in the Middle East (Hamas,
Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, Al Aqsa Martyr Brigades, Islamic Jihad, Harkat
ul Mujahideen)

Conflict in the Caucasus From Imam Shamil to the Second Russo-Chechen War.

Ethnicity and Conflict in the Lands of the Ottoman Empire.

A History of Afghanistan from Babur to the Destruction of the Taliban.

Islamic Central Asia from Genghis Khan to Fall of the USSR.

World History from 1500 (From the Crusades to the Second Intifada).

World History to 1500 (Understanding the 'Other' from the Hittites to the Assassins).

A History of Russia From Ivan the Terrible to Vladimir Putin.

University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies.

MA Graduate Colloquium: The End of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East and the Balkans.

Reform, Resistance and Revolution. The Ottoman Empire in the Middle East.

The Emergence of the Ottoman State, 1071-1481.

The Middle East in the Middle Ages.

Approaches to History: Russia, the Middle East and China at the Time of Marco Polo.

University of Wisconsin

Empires and Invasions. Islamic Central Asia from Genghis Khan to Stalin.

Politics and State in the Medieval Islamic World.