"I am not a teacher, but an awakener."
INstructor of record experience
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Advanced Research Methods. Political Science Department. Cal Poly Pomona. Fall 2023 and Spring 2024.
This was an upper division research methods course that focuses on giving undergraduates the statistical tools and foundations to conduct their own research. I bolstered the existing course design of the department by shifting the course from using SPSS, to using R software with my original training process. Students end the class by conducting their own research using skills we wet over like manipulating data and fitting multiple statistical tests in R software. Intro to American Government. Political Science Department. UC Irvine. Spring 2023. Introductory course with 300 undergraduates addressing the fundamentals of American Politics. I leveraged asynchronous and remote course design using Open Stax American Government 3E. My goal was to prioritize accessibility and critical thinking in the remote environment. Additionally, I pioneered novel tactics to address the presence of generative AI in the classroom while assigning essay based exams. I also managed four teaching assistants, where I focused on prioritizing student engagement with them while not overburdening their workload. |
Identity Politics. African and African American Studies Department and Political Science Department. Brandeis University. Fall 2022 and Spring 2024.
This was an upper division writing course that addressed how identity, namely race, gender, and sexuality frame American Political life. The course culminated in a 12 page research paper that allowed the students to produce quality social science research. I focused on an innovative flipped classroom approach in a remote environment, which allowed for synchronous engagement from the students through small discussions and presentations. This course was designed with innovative course elements and guidance by Dr. Amber Spry. |
Summer intensive methods training
I co-founded an intensive methods summer program for incoming first years to the UC Irvine Political Science department. This Bootcamp is grounded in a hands-on data approach designed to reduce the barriers to entry into the Political Science statistics sequence at UC Irvine. Additionally, it is meant to instill a belief in incoming graduate students that they are capable of understanding and performing quantitative methods. A rough template for how this Bootcamp plays out can be found here.
The primary goal for the course is to increase retention and encourage the use of quantitative methods generally. Specifically, we seek to increase retention and provide encouragement to womxn and POC. Many of our students with these identities have historically and currently been made to feel unwelcome and/or incapable of quantitative methods. We teach proficiency in R as it is a free platform that reduces the financial barriers to statistical computing. From there, we focus on building concrete tools students will need to perform the tasks they are expected to undertake as researchers at the graduate level but are often underserved by the current course offerings.
The primary goal for the course is to increase retention and encourage the use of quantitative methods generally. Specifically, we seek to increase retention and provide encouragement to womxn and POC. Many of our students with these identities have historically and currently been made to feel unwelcome and/or incapable of quantitative methods. We teach proficiency in R as it is a free platform that reduces the financial barriers to statistical computing. From there, we focus on building concrete tools students will need to perform the tasks they are expected to undertake as researchers at the graduate level but are often underserved by the current course offerings.
Teaching assistant experience
Intro to American Government – Four Quarters of leading and grading sections of 90 students
American Presidency - One quarter 90 students
Law and Markets - One quarter 90 students
American Presidency - One quarter 90 students
Law and Markets - One quarter 90 students