Teaching

Assaf has served on the faculties of the United States Military Academy at West Point (2007-2010) and the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (2011-Present). From 2017 to 2019, Assaf was an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. He teaches an online course at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.

Courses Taught

United States Military Academy

  • Terrorism and Counterterrorism, United States Military Academy, West Point, Spring 2010 (Instructor), Fall 2010 (Course Director and Instructor), Spring 2018 (Co-Instructor)
  • International Relations, United States Military Academy, West Point, Fall 2009
  • Advanced Terrorism Studies Seminar, United States Military Academy, West Point, Fall 2008 (Course Director and Instructor)
  • Terrorism: The New Challenges, United States Military Academy, West Point, Spring 2008 (Instructor)

Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya

  • Formal Terrorist Actors, MA level, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel, Fall 2016
  • Informal Terrorist Actors, MA level, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel, Spring 2017
  • Formal and Informal Terrorist Actors, MA level, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel, Summer 2016, Spring 2020
  • Research Cadets, MA level, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2019
  • Insurgencies and Civil Wars, MA level, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Spring 2016, Fall 2019
  • MA Research Seminar on Contemporary Topics in International Terrorism, MA level, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel, Fall 2012, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2020
  • Religion, Conflict, and Conflict Resolution, BA level, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014. Click here for the Fall 2014 syllabus.
  • Honors Seminar: Social Movements, BA level, Lauder School, IDC Herzliya, Israel, Spring 2012, Spring 2013
  • Honors Seminar: Global Jihad and the Terror Nexus, BA level, Lauder School, IDC Herzliya, Israel, Spring 2014
  • The Anatomy of Terrorist Organizations, MA level, Lauder School, IDC, Herzliya, Israel, Fall 2011, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015
  • Psychological Aspects of Terrorism, MA level, Lauder School, IDC Herzliya, Israel, Summer 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012
  • Civil Wars and Ethnic Conflict, BA level, Lauder School, IDC Herzliya, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2019

Columbia University

  • Formal and Informal Terrorist Actors (Fall 2017, Fall 2018). Click here for the Fall 2017 syllabus.
  • Insurgency and Civil Wars (Spring 2018, Spring 2019)

UMass Lowell

  • Domestic Terrorism and Violent Extremism (Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Summer 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, Fall 2019). Click here for the Fall 2017 syllabus.