Theresa Gessler
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I teach substantive classes on comparative politics, democracy and political behavior, as well as methods classes (and workshops) on text analysis, webscraping, computational social science and data journalism. Below, you can find a list of my past and present courses. Some of my syllabi and course resources, e.g. for a 2020 Text Analysis Course or a no-math introduction to quantitative methods are also available on GitHub. If you are interested in my teaching evaluations, drop me an e-mail.

Institution Course Year
European University Viadrina (interdisciplinary BA and MA Programs) Introduction to Comparative Politics (BA) 2025
Einführung in die quantitativen Forschungsmethoden (BA) 2025
Demokratie und Autokratie: Anwendungen quantitativer Methoden (MA) 2024
Polarization and Democracy (BA) 2024
Parlamentarische Sprache im Brandenburger Landtag (MA) 2024
Projektseminar Wahlverhalten im Superwahljahr 2024 (BA) 2024
Europäische Gesellschaften im Wandel: Einführung in die quantitativen Forschungsmethoden (BA, 2x) 2023
Gender and Politics in digital spaces (BA) 2023
Democracy in Crisis? Challenges to democratic systems in Europe (BA) 2022
Parlamentarische Sprache (MA) 2022
University of Zürich (BA and MA Political Science) Web Data and Research for Political Scientists 2020, 2021, 2022
Politischer Datenjournalismus (mit Fabrizio Gilardi und Alexandra Kohler, NZZ) 2019, 2020, 2021
Introduction to Political Systems and Theories, Ringvorlesung des Instituts für Politikwissenschaft, Beitrag: 3 Sitzungen 2021
Perceptions of female politicians in Switzerland, Capstone Course, civic partner: alliance F 2019-2020
New Forms of Political Participation 2019
Democracy in Crisis? Challenges to democratic systems in Europe 2019
GESIS Institute for the Social Sciences, Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science Automated Web Data Collection (w/ Hauke Licht) 2021, 2022
European Consortium for Political Research Methods Schools Automated Web Data Collection with R (Winter School Bamberg) 2020
Automated Collection of Web and Social Data (Summer School Budapest) 2019
University of Mannheim (MA Political Science) Data and Measurement 2021
European University Institute (PhD Political and Social Sciences) Computational Text Analysis (2x) 2020, 2021
University of Lucerne (MA Computational Social Science) Data Journalism (w/ Lucas Leemann) 2021
University of Lugano (MA Economics, Minor Data Science) Text Analysis and Spatial Data for Economists (w/ Raphael Parchet) 2020, 2021, 2022
University of Düsseldorf (BA Political Science) Populism and Democracy 2018
Workshops University of Warwick, Q-Step Centre, Masterclass on Webscraping (2x) 2020, 2021
Scottish Graduate School of Social Science, Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis (w/ Stefan Müller) 2020
University of Zurich, PhD and Postdoc peer group, Masterclass Webscraping for Research 2020
Summer School for Women in Political Methodology, Workshops on Text Analysis (2019, 2023) and Web Scraping (2018, 2019, 2023) 2018-2023
Impressum: Theresa Gessler, Juniorprofessur Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Logenstraße 11, 15230 Frankfurt (Oder)
Picture: ECPR.