Teaching

Humboldt University

As convener:

Individual lectures/sessions

Perspectives on Social Sciences: The comparative method in political science, WiSe 2025/2026
International and Comparative Politics (Lectures), BA SoSe 2025

As (co-)convener:

Individual lectures/sessions:

Seminars & Workshops:

Post-conflict political orders in comparison (BA; with Julia Strasheim), University of Hamburg 2014

Introduction to Data Analysis with R (PhD),
Peace Research Institute Frankfurt 2019
Analyzing Political Economy Data in Aceh with R (BA/MA/PhD),
ICAIOS centre, Banda Aceh, Indonesia 2018
Making Your Research Accessible: Data Visualization and Interactive Graphics (PhD),
GIGA Hamburg 2018
Data Visualization for Political Scientists (PhD/Post-doc),
University of Cologne 2018

Students who want me to supervise their BA/MA thesis should send me a written exposé of 1.5-2 pages with the following information:

A clear research question that you intend to answer in your thesis. See this useful guide on how to find a research question in political science and the resources below.
The theory you want to apply to answer your questions and, possibly, initial hypotheses.
An overview of the method you intend to use.
A (preliminary) list of data sources you want to consult to answer your questions.
A timeline for completion of the thesis.

Adam McCauley, and Andrea Ruggeri. 2020. “From Questions and Puzzles to Research Project.” In The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations. SAGE Publications Ltd.
William Roberts Clark. 2020. “Asking Interesting Questions.” In The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations. SAGE Publications Ltd.

Cunningham, Scott. 2021. Causal Inference: The Mixtape. Yale University Press.
Healy, Kieran. 2018. Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction. Princeton University Press.
Huntington-Klein, Nick. 2021. The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality. Routledge.
Imai, Kosuke. 2017. Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction. Princeton University Press.
Rohrer, Julia M. 2018. Thinking Clearly About Correlations and Causation: Graphical Causal Models for Observational Data.. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 1 (1): 27–42.

De Vries, Catherine. “Respect the Marble.” Substack.
Pinker, Steven. 2014. The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century. Viking.
Sood, Gaurav. No date. “On Writing”
Strunk, William, and Elwyn B. White. 2009. The Elements of Style. 4th ed. Longman.
Zinsser, William. 2006. On Writing Well. Harper Perennial.
Zinsser, William. 2009. “Writing English as a Second Language” The American Scholar.

Ecarnot, F., M.-F. Seronde, R. Chopard, F. Schiele, and N. Meneveau. 2015. “Writing a Scientific Article: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners.” European Geriatric Medicine 6 (6): 573–79.
Little, Andrew. 2016. “Three templates for introductions to Political Science articles.”
Niehaus, Paul. 2019. “Doing Research.”