Teaching
Teaching
Dr. Sa’ed Atshan has developed many courses on peace and conflict, humanitarianism, and the contemporary Middle East.
Self-Designed Courses
| Global Health and Conflict (honors seminar) | Swarthmore College |
| Gender in the Middle East and North Africa | Lumen Academy (Shanghai, China) |
| The Middle East and North Africa | Swarthmore College |
| Ethnographic Methods & Writing (graduate seminar) |
Emory University |
| Contemporary Israel/Palestine | Emory University |
| Anthropological Perspectives: Middle East and North Africa | Emory University |
| Global Peace and Conflict | Emory University |
| Cultures of the Contemporary Arab World | Sijal Institute (Amman, Jordan) |
| Interpersonal Communication (graduate seminar) | Arab American University of Palestine |
| Cultures of the Contemporary Middle East | University of California, Berkeley |
| Global Humanitarianism | University of California, Berkeley |
| Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies | Swarthmore College |
| Crisis Resolution in the Middle East | Swarthmore College |
| Global Responses to Violence (first year seminar) |
Swarthmore College |
| Gender, Sexuality, and Social Change | Swarthmore College |
| Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (includes a 10-day study trip to Israel/Palestine: winter 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020) |
Swarthmore College |
| Humanitarianism: Anthropological Approaches (honors seminar) |
Swarthmore College |
| Introduction to Peace and Justice Studies | Tufts University |
| The Arab Spring and Nonviolent Strategic Action | Tufts University |
| Cultures of the Contemporary Middle East | Brown University |
| Decolonizing the Racialized Female Subject: Black and Indigenous Women (graduate seminar) |
Brown University |
| The Arab Spring | Brown University |
| Gender, Sexuality, and Human Rights in the Middle East | Tufts University |
| Political and Social Movements in the Modern Middle East | Harvard University |
Co-Taught Courses
| Nature, Nurture, Sexualitiese (with Marcela Benitez) | Emory University |
| Social Justice and Human Rights in Israel/Palestine (fieldwork instructor with Eve Spangler) | Boston College |
| Social Epidemiology (with Rita Giacaman) | Birzeit University (Palestine) |
Head Teaching Fellow
| Comparative Politics in the Middle East | Harvard University |
| Contemporary Political Islam | Harvard University |
| Globalization, Development, and the Middle East | Harvard University |
Teaching Assistant
| Junior Tutorial in Social Anthropology | Harvard University |
| Dilemmas in Biomedical Ethics | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Exercising Leadership: Mobilizing Group Resources | Harvard University |
