Teaching

University of Oxford

Graduate Courses

• Formal Analysis
• Challenges of Democratisation (Blavatnik School of Government)
• Democratisation: Theory and Practice
• European Politics and Society Core Course

Undergraduate Courses

• Politics Prelims (lectures)
• Comparative Political Economy (lectures)
• Comparative Government (lectures)

Graduate Supervision

Ben has supervised numerous DPhil students at Oxford, many of whom have gone on to academic positions at leading universities including:

• Katerina Tertytchnaya - Associate Professor, Oxford (previously UCL)
• Jacob Nyrup - Professor, University of Oslo
• Alexa Zeitz - Assistant Professor, Concordia University
• Seung-un Chae - Assistant Professor, University of Leeds
• Ashrakat Elshahewy - Assistant Professor, UCL
• Kofi Gunu - Postdoctoral Researcher, Warwick
• Leo Carella - Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Vienna
• Valerie Belu - Director of Talent, GovAI
• Laure Bokobza - Senior Researcher, Behavioural Insights Team

Previous Teaching (University of Minnesota)

Graduate Courses

• Theories of Political Economy
• International Political Economy
• Comparative Politics Core
• Colloquium in Methods and Models
• Graduate Student Math Camp

Undergraduate Courses

• Puzzles in Politics and Economics
• Globalization and Domestic Politics
• Introduction to Political Economy
• Politics of Inequality
• The US and the Global Economy

Administrative Roles

• Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods, Oxford (2025-30)
• Director of Research Training, Oxford (2020-23)
• Director of Graduate Students, Professional Training, Oxford (2014-17, 2019-20)
• Chair of MPhil Examiners, Oxford (2016-17)