Teaching

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In my previous role as an Assistant Professor of political science, I maintained a strong commitment to teaching. My goals as an instructor were to ensure that my students not only learned the disciplinary content, but also developed critical and transferable skills from each course I taught. I have experience teaching and designing courses that integrate important research and writing skills into the course content. For example, the quantitative political analysis course that I have taught several times, covers the basics of research design, data collection, summary statistics, hypothesis testing, and regression. Beyond these topics, the course is designed to help students become more critical consumers of statistical information presented in the news. Throughout the course, students also learn statistical programming skills in either the R or Stata program. These are skills that they can place directly on a resume when they apply for jobs. In the spring of 2018, I transformed this course into an online course that maintained the same focus on teaching students transferable skills without the aid of face-to-face instructional time. I have also taught a course on the politics of Latin America that addresses the political history, institutions, and other topics related to Latin America. In this course, students develop qualitative research skills that help them identify reliable primary and secondary sources. They also gain a useful insight into Latin America’s political context, allowing them to better understand current events. In the coming semester, I will teach a comparative/international political economy course that aims to introduce students to basic ideas of international trade and economic development. It will also discuss the larger impacts that globalization has had on the developed and developing world.

Finally, I have also had opportunities to teach and mentor outside of a classroom setting. I applied for and won two competitive research grants to hire four undergraduate research assistants to collect state level data from original sources. Two of my research assistants have used these skills to write undergraduate honors theses in Political Science. I look forward to continuing to foster undergraduate research and to involve undergraduate research assistants in my own work

Experience

New College of Florida          

Courses taught

Tutorial/Independent Study

  • Independent Study on the Informal Market (January, 2019)
  • Thesis tutorial Sponsor: 6 thesis projects
  • R for Quantitative Political Analysis (Spring, 2020)

Supervisor of Undergraduate research assistants 

  • Research Assistant (Spring, 2019)
  • Teaching Assistant (Fall, 2019)

Pennsylvania State University

Courses Taught

Online Course design

  • PL SC 309 Quantitative Political Analysis (Spring 2018)

Graduate Methods Teaching Assistant

  • PL SC 502 Statistical Methods for Political Research (Fall 2015)
  • PL SC 504 Advanced Topics in Political Methodology (Fall 2015)

Supervisor of Undergraduate research assistants 

  • Spring, 2016-Fall, 2016

Training

  • Quality Matters, Designing your Blended Course (Summer, 2020)
  • New College Writing Enhanced Course professional development program for faculty (Summer 2019)
  • New College pedagogy workshops on advising and narrative evaluation (Summer 2019)
  • Schreyer Institute Course in College Teaching, University Park, PA (Fall, 2015)