My teaching emphasizes a humanistic approach to learning, in which politics and everyday experiences are interlinked. I therefore encourage students to approach academic texts not as containers of truths but as containers of interventions in search for meaning. At the center of my teaching is a feminist pedagogy, which I bring to the classroom through participatory methods of learning, in order to enable students develop a critical eye to their own assumptions and those of the world around them. I believe that this methodology makes students learn faster and develops their critical thinking as citizens in a globalized world.
I have taught several modules in Canada, Belgium, the USA, Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi.
University of Ghent
- MA level | The Politics of Development, Winter 2022
Université de Montréal
- MA level | Gender, Peace and Security, Fall 2019
- MA level | Gender and Conflict Resolution, Summer 2021
- BA level | Gender and Politics, Winter 2020
Beijing Normal University (China)
- Gender and Development, Fall 2018
Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- BA level |The United Nations and Global Governance, Spring 2015, 2016 and 2017
- BA level | History of Genocide, Fall 2016
- BA level |Global Ethics, Fall 2016, Spring 2017
Université libre de Bruxelles
- BA level | History of Political Thought in International Relations, Spring 2012, Spring 2014
University of Michigan
- Values and Ethics in Public Policy, Spring 2011
Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA), Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
- Introduction to Current Challenges in International Affairs, Summer 2015, Summer 2016, Summer 2017, Summer 2018
UNESCO Chair in Peaceful Conflict Resolution and Human Rights in Bujumbura (Burundi)
- Introduction to Civil Society in International Relations, Spring 2013
Sample syllabi are available upon request
Dr. Maria Martin de Almagro 