At Columbia University, Shaunna teaches the Columbia Core Curriculum in Contemporary Civilization. Her teaching integrates classic texts in political thought with perspectives from non-Western traditions, encouraging students to critically engage with foundational concepts in political legitimacy, authority, and democracy.
In the past, she has also independently taught global core courses at Columbia University, including Gandhi and His Interlocutors, a course that examines the philosophical, political, and social debates surrounding Gandhi’s anticolonial thought and action, engaging with critics and interlocutors from a range of ideological and historical perspectives.
She has also taught courses on Anticolonialism, Constitutionalism, and Democracy in South Asia, which examines how anticolonial thought shapes the political present and future of South Asia by exploring its impact on constitutionalism, democracy, and social transformation, engaging themes such as anticolonial worldmaking, contesting race, anti-caste assertion, Islamic political thought, the reconstruction of South Asian religions, constitutionalism, representation, secularism, and emerging debates on environmental rights and data governance.
