I work as a sessional/part-time instructor at various institutions. I have designed and taught a range of courses, including 400-level seminar courses on the Middle East at SFU, European and global history courses at KPU, and a wide range of social science electives at other colleges. Additionally, I worked as a teaching assistant for six semesters at Sabancı University and eight semesters at SFU, covering diverse topics such as Middle Eastern, European, Canadian, and global history.
1-) Simon Fraser University (SFU)
I was fortunate to design and teach two 400-level seminar courses on my immediate research area at Simon Fraser University.
- Hist 485: The Middle East Through Popular Culture Materials: From the Late Ottoman Empire to the Interwar Period(Summer 2024) – Click Here for a copy of Syllabus
Course outline: The overall aim of the course is to explore the groundbreaking changes that the Ottoman Empire underwent during the long 19th century and to discuss the nation-building projects and struggles in the Interwar period. Although a significant portion of the Ottoman Empire was officially transformed into the Republic of Turkey as a modern nation-state, it is a nationalistic fallacy to dismiss the shared Ottoman context for the newly emerging countries that were formerly part of the empire. The prevalence of nationalist historiography both in Turkish Studies and Arab and Middle East Studies can be well observed in the courses offered not only at universities in the region but in European and North American Universities. One can find number of courses that examine transition from the Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic; and also courses that investigate History of Arab World or specific Middle Eastern countries during the 19th and early 20th century.
This course attempts to treat the shared Ottoman context well and go beyond the aforementioned binary and examine the experiences and challenges of the post-Ottoman Middle Eastern History concurrently. Our main endeavor in this course will be examining the transformation of the Middle Eastern societies and more specifically how these changes were treated by the novelists, intellectuals, and directors. To this end, even though we will be consulting academic articles, textbooks, and book chapters to lay the groundwork for further discussion, predominantly, we will be using less-conventional sources including novels, short stories, and TV series and movies.
History 486: Political Thought and Action in the Ottoman Mediterranean during the long 19th century (Summer 2023) – Click Here for a copy of Syllabus
Course details: The overall aim of the course is to explore the political and economic transformation of the Ottoman Empire with a specific emphasis on political thoughts and their implementation across the Ottoman Mediterranean during the long 19th century. The first two weeks are dedicated to providing a brief background on the Ottoman Empire prior to the 19th century and also familiarizing students with the decline paradigm as it used to be the prevalent intellectual setting within which the Ottoman modernizations were discussed. In roughly chronological order, we analyze the roots, articulation, and implementation of political ideas and actions by traveling around the Ottoman Mediterranean (Algeria, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Anatolia, and the Ottoman Balkans). The course explores some key figures of the period including Mehmed Ali Pasha (1769-1849), Ahmet Cevdet Pasha (1823-1895), Butrus al-Bustani (1819-1883), and Muhammad Abduh (1849-1905). However, we will also pay attention to historically excluded groups such as non-elites, women, non-Muslims, and slaves and their understanding of and contribution to these major changes.
2-) Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU)
I am on Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s qualified instructor pool and have already designed and taught the following two courses.
- Hist 1131: Atom Bombs to the Internet: Twentieth Century World 1945-2000 (Summer 2024) Click Here for a copy of Syllabus
Course details: Students will examine some of the major global developments in the latter half of the twentieth century, including the devastating impact of the Second World War, genocide, and the atomic bomb. They will also analyze key issues in the postwar world, including the emergence of a bipolar world and the global impact of the power wielded by the Soviet Union and the United States; the causes and consequences of decolonization and the roots of neo-colonialism; the environmental effects of industrial growth and energy use; the results of the fall of Soviet-style communism; and the impact of globalization.
Hist 2119: Europe 1789 to 1914 (Summer 2024) – Click here for a copy of Syllabus
Course details: Students will examine the revolutionary era which began in France in 1789 and evaluate its political, economic, social, and cultural impact across Europe. They will also study the impact of the Industrial Revolution and the ways in which it rewrote Europe’s socio-economic history and created new challenges for its political system. Students will also identify those elements of tradition that transcended the constant upheavals of this period. Prerequisites: Any 6 credits at the 1100 level or higher
3-) Vancouver Island University (VIU)
Hist 208: North American Popular Culture After WWII (Fall 2024)
4-)Western Community College and Acsenda School of Management
Since 2022, I have designed and taught following social science electives.
- World History
- World Civilization
- Introduction to Canadian Politics
Teaching Assistantships
Simon Fraser University (SFU)
- Hist 225: 20th Century Europe
(Prof. Ilya Vinkovetsky, Spring 2023 & Spring 2021)
- Hist 101: Canada to Confederation
(Prof. Nicholas May, Fall 2022 & Prof. Willeen Keough, Fall 2021)
- Hist 102: Canada since Confederation
(Prof. Mark Leier, Spring 2022)
- Hist 151: The Modern Middle East
(Prof. Paul Sedra, Fall 2020 & Fall 2019; Prof. Thomas Kuehn, Spring 2019)
Sabancı University (Istanbul, Turkey)
- SPS 101: Social and Political Science
Six semesters from 2016 to 2018