I passionately teach modules in comparative politics, international relations, and research methods both at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
At UCL, I am the module convenor of Protest and Revolution (Fall 2025) introducing first-year undergraduates to contentious politics and social movements. I also co-convene the postgraduate module Research Methods: Text and Images (Spring 2025 & 2026) that introduces students to a range of philosophical approaches to conducting social scientific research using texts and images.
I also am a proud member of UCL’s research methods team where I have taught Interviews, Observations, and Mixed Methods (postgraduate- Spring 2024, 2025, & 2026), Case Studies and Comparative Analysis (postgraduate – Fall 2023 & Fall 2024) and Qualitative Research Methods (undergraduate – Fall 2023). Through this work, I train students in the methodological tools that they need to thrive in their dissertation projects. At Brown, I taught quantitative methods to undergraduates in Foundations of Political Analysis (Fall 2019).
I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK, since January 2024. At Brown, I received the Terrence P. Hopmann Award for Excellence in Teaching.
At Brown, I designed and solo-taught an introductory comparative politics module and an introductory international relations module.
Introduction to Comparative Politics: The Middle East & Eastern Europe, Summer 2023
Description: “Global headlines have highlighted the rise of populism, nationalism, authoritarianism, inter-state and civil wars, mass protests, and revolutions in Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Poland, and Hungary, etc. This course introduces core concepts of the comparative politics subfield with a focus on the Middle East and Eastern Europe regions. Students will critically analyze and debate the causes of democracy, development, welfare, and conflict in these two regions. The instructor guides students in evaluating and designing research using diverse methodologies such as small-n historical and ethnographic case studies, experiments, interviews, formal models, statistical analysis, and interpretivism.
International Relations of Russia, China, and Europe, Summer 2023
Description: “This course examines Russia’s foreign policy toward China, Europe, and, to a lesser extent, the US. This course explores several topics: reasons for Russia’s use of military force currently and historically; the impact of Russia’s vast geography on foreign policy; Russia’s shifting alliances with China; deterrence and the risk of nuclear war; the decline of the US and the rise of China; European dependence on Russian energy exports; EU integration and NATO expansion; the war in Ukraine, etc.”
At Brown, I also served as a graduate teaching assistant for Foundations of Security (Undergraduate – Fall 2023), Chinese Foreign Policy (Undergraduate – Spring 2021), and Security, Governance and Development in Africa (Undergraduate -Spring 2020).
In addition to my experience in higher education, I have eight years of experience as an educator serving as a teacher, principal intern, mentor, and tutor at the primary and secondary levels. Relatedly, I received a Master’s in Education (M.Ed.) from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. I believe that my involvement in primary & secondary education has made a great contribution to my teaching in higher education.
Daniel J. Schulte, Ph.D. 