Teaching

Randa has over 20 years of teaching experience at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Her first regular teaching experience began at the American University of Beirut after she received an MA from the University of Windsor in Canada. Subsequently, as a Ph.D. candidate, she taught The Sociological Imagination and The Immigrant Experience: Then and Now. She also won a Cordier Fellowship for two years from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia to co-teach Conceptual Foundations of International Relations. 

Since 2009, Randa has taught at the American University of Beirut and at American University in Washington, DC and is currently teaching at Barnard College. A complete list of her taught courses are included below: 

Barnard College, New York City

Undergraduate Courses: Power, Politics, and Society, Surveillance, Transnationalism, Citizenship, and Belonging, Arab New York, Advanced Topics in Immigration and Inequality

American University, Washington DC

Undergraduate Courses : Who’s watching you now? (first year seminar), Classical Social Theory, Urban Lives, AU Experience I, AU Experience II, US Society, Classical Social Theory , Arab Societies, Power, Politics, and Society, Introduction to the Arab World

Graduate Course : Social Theory

Independent Study: Racial Trauma on a White Campus, Black Student Success at American University, Arab Family Relations, Politics of the Arab Family, State formation in Saudi Arabia, Arab Women Writers, Latino Music as Identity, Middle Eastern Urban Politics.

American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Undergraduate Courses : Freshman Sociology, Sociological Theory, Social Movements, Political Sociology, Sociology of Exclusion: Racism, Classism, and Sexism, Introduction to Sociology

Graduate Course : Social Movements, Introduction to Sociology, Democratization and Nation State Building,

School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Graduate Course : Conceptual Foundations of International Politics (co-taught)

Department of Sociology, Columbia University

Undergraduate Courses : Immigrant Experience: Old and New (Instructor), Sociological Imagination(Instructor), Evaluation of Evidence (TA) , Seminar on Race and Ethnicity (TA)

Graduate Course : Social Theory and the City TA with weekly tutorials for undergraduates

Barnard College

Undergraduate Courses : Gender and Sexuality TA with weekly tutorials