Teaching
Teaching Interests
I am happy to teach a variety of courses according to my interests and training in the areas of comparative politics, social policy, political economy and international relations. I am also interested in teaching introductory or advanced thematic seminars on my areas of research expertise: Political Economy of Latin America, Politics of the Global South, and Politics of Social Policy and Labour Markets. Finally, I look forward to teaching methodological courses, such as research design, introduction to statistics, qualitative and mixed methods, and R programming for social sciences.
Teaching Experience
Politics in Latin America, University of Oxford (course convener)
This course focuses on the politics of the major states of Latin America and the current challenges – economic, social and political - to their democratic governments. It is aimed at students with no prior knowledge of the area, but a desire to understand how Latin American societies and governments are organized and what major problems these societies face. Throughout the semester, students incorporate conceptual tools that allow them to understand both the common trends and the diverse paths followed by countries in the region, focusing on democratic consolidation and economic development.
Introduction to Political Science, London School of Economics and Political Science (class teacher)
The course is an introduction to politics in a globalised world, with a focus on how political science tries to understand and explain cross-country and cross-time differences. It introduces students to some of the main empirical variations in political behaviour, political institutions, and outcomes across the world, focusing mainly on democratic and partially democratic countries (in both the developed and developing world), and acquainting students with some of the basic theoretical ideas and research methods in political science.
International Relations and World Politics, UNC-Chapel Hill (primary instructor)
This course introduces students to the core topics in international relations with a focus on understanding international organizations and the functioning of the international economy.
Contemporary Latin American Politics, UNC-Chapel Hill (primary instructor)
This course provides an introduction to the study of Latin American politics. It is aimed at students with no prior knowledge of the area, but a desire to understand how Latin American societies and governments are organized and what major problems these societies face. The course focuses particularly on two interrelated issues: democratic consolidation and economic development.
Introduction to Comparative Politics, UNC-Chapel Hill (teaching assistant)
This course provides an introduction to the important themes of comparative political analysis, one of the four subfields of political science. It is designed to help students understand the building blocks of government and explore the political, social and economic phenomena that shape societies around the world.
Organizational History of Unionism in Argentina, Universidad de Buenos Aires (co-primary instructor)
The objective of this course is to present a political economy approach to the history of labour unionism in Argentina. The six units of the course present an overview of the six historical stages of development of the labour movement in the country, with a focus on the literature that analyses and explains the origins and evolution of organizational features at the movement, sector and firm level.
Introduction to Political Science, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (teaching assistant)
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the main issues related to the political organization of modern societies and their central political processes. The course is organized around the systematic analysis of the main institutions that structure political life in the contemporary world.