Dr. Gavrilis has taught courses on a range of international relations and comparative politics subjects and has published on teaching with interactive methods:

“Comparative Reasoning in the Undergraduate Classroom,” PS: Political Science and Politics (co-authored, October 2009)

Courses taught include:

U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East
International Security
War & Territory
Borders & Conflict

In 2006 he received the Silver Spurs Centennial Teaching Fellowship Award (University of Texas, Austin)