Ben Smith
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I teach graduate courses in the comparative politics and methods fields.

I regularly teach two graduate-level seminars in comparative politics: Ethnicity and Nationalism and Civil Wars. I taught the former in fall 2020, and taught the latter in spring 2022. In fall 2022, I will offer Southeast Asian Politics.

In the methods field, I teach Conduct of Inquiry every other year for the first-year cohorts. In this seminar I focus heavily on the development of research questions, deep exploration of the logic of different modes of empirical inquiry and explanation, and subsequently how to construct the most appropriate research designs to answer particular questions.

I have also taught focused seminars on Comparative Historical Analysis.