Previously Dr. Kurze has taught for New York University, Sciences Po (The Institut d'études politiques de Paris in France) and the Center for Global Studies at George Mason University. Dr. Kurze teaches courses on post-conflict and international justice as well as human rights issues. His research has taken him to North Africa and the former Yugoslavia, where he spent several years studying the effects of war crimes and mass atrocities on post-authoritarian societies. He has been working in the Balkan region on human rights issues and social movements since 2007, developing fluency in Croatian in addition to French, German and Spanish.