Teaching

My teaching is experiential and applied, drawing students into the excitement and puzzle of politics and policy. I bring these approaches to courses on quantitative methods, applied research methods, and environmental politics at the undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels.

George Washington University

PSC3192W / IAFF3190W — Environmental Activism and Politics

Undergraduate. Spring 2026.

This course explores when and how community organizations and activist networks influence local politics and environmental policies around the world across specific themes, such as water access, air pollution, conservation, mining, and renewable energy. Students choose an environmental case (U.S. or international) for a term paper developed over multiple drafts and refined through peer review, and they complete an experiential learning assignment connecting course themes to a related activity in Washington, DC. Cross-listed in Political Science and International Affairs, the course also counts toward GW’s Minor in Sustainability.

PSC8128 — Surveys and Experiments (PhD)

Graduate. Fall 2025.

This course focuses on the design and analysis of surveys and experiments, covering the key issues, considerations, and steps involved in pre-registering, designing, implementing, and analyzing surveys and experiments. Students design their own original survey instrument and write a full pre-analysis plan for a survey or field experiment, often developed into dissertation pilot studies.

PSC2101 — Scope and Methods

Undergraduate. Fall 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026.

This course provides an overview of quantitative research methods and their applications in political science. As a class, students co-design a public opinion survey instrument, pilot it face-to-face, launch it online, and conduct regression analysis in R, learning key concepts in quantitative methods so they can conduct their own social science research and be critical readers of news and academic work.

IAFF3193W — ESIA Dean’s Scholars Seminar

Undergraduate. Fall 2024, 2026.

In this course in the Dean’s Scholars sequence, students utilize their completed data collection and analysis to write up an approximately 35-page research paper based on original qualitative or quantitative research, with intensive supervision and iterative peer review. Previous students have presented resulting papers at the National Collegiate Research Conference (NCRC) at Harvard University and the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Annual Conference.

Texas A&M University

• POLS309 — Polimetrics. Undergraduate. Fall 2020, 2021.
• POLS491 — Undergraduate Directed Research. Fall 2021.

Princeton University

• Rapid Switch: Energy Transition to a Low-Carbon Future. Spring 2020.