I am a Lecturer at the Yehuda Elkana Center for Teaching, Learning, and Higher Education Research, where I design and teach courses and facilitate workshops for doctoral students and faculty at CEU and partner institutions. I also collaborate with initiatives in the city of Vienna to promote democratic pedagogies in schools and higher education institutions. My teaching focuses on democratic and inclusive teaching, interactive paradigms in teaching, the intentional use of technology in teaching, and the theory and history of educational practices.
I received my PhD from the University of Chicago, where I researched at the intersection of literature, history, and philosophy. My current research examines the relationship between democratic backsliding, technological solutionism, and teaching practice. I also study the use of the Theater of the Oppressed in higher education, with a forthcoming publication exploring its pedagogical and democratic possibilities, and I actively engage in practice-based implementations of participatory and critical teaching methods.
I have coedited an open educational resource on Inclusive Teaching for the former OSUN network. I have written and published on generative AI, authorship, learning, and writing practices, and I regularly present at conferences on democratic education, giving talks on the philosophy and history of education, democratic teaching, and inclusive teaching more broadly.
Both my teaching and research are shaped by interdisciplinary, practice-oriented interventions in a rapidly changing educational context. I am actively involved in multidisciplinary collaborations with educationalists, philosophers, and social scientists and maintain a strong record of collaboration across global alliances, disciplines, and civil society. In 2023, my engagement with inclusive education was recognized through an invitation to the Salzburg Global Seminar, where I founded a working group examining civic education from the perspective of disengaged and disillusioned youth.