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)