My teaching assistance experience includes courses in comparative politics, environmental policy, and research methods. I also co-designed the Climate Change and Politics course with Matthew Shugart, offered at UC Davis in 2017 (Honors) and 2018 (lower division). In addition, I have trained over a dozen undergraduate researchers in data collection and data inference, and co-led the first annual Programming and Methods Resource Workshop for graduate students in the Political Science Department in 2018.
I plan to teach comparative politics, policy, and research methods courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. Regarding comparative politics and policy, I will teach courses on political institutions and party systems (including executive arrangement, electoral rules, federalism, and party organization), focusing on how these factors affect policy-making processes and policy change. Particular attention will be paid to policy agendas involving climate change, the environment, and social services, and most courses will have cross-regional elements (spanning more and less institutionalized contexts). I am prepared to teach a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods, as well as applied programming in methodology and research design courses. These courses will reflect my philosophy that the value of any method is determined by its capacity to answer specific theoretical and empirical questions in political and social science. Students that take my courses will learn to think critically about the wide range of data and methodological tools available, selecting those best suited to speak to their questions of interest. Students will also be encouraged to be creative and bold in research design.
I plan to teach comparative politics, policy, and research methods courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. Regarding comparative politics and policy, I will teach courses on political institutions and party systems (including executive arrangement, electoral rules, federalism, and party organization), focusing on how these factors affect policy-making processes and policy change. Particular attention will be paid to policy agendas involving climate change, the environment, and social services, and most courses will have cross-regional elements (spanning more and less institutionalized contexts). I am prepared to teach a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods, as well as applied programming in methodology and research design courses. These courses will reflect my philosophy that the value of any method is determined by its capacity to answer specific theoretical and empirical questions in political and social science. Students that take my courses will learn to think critically about the wide range of data and methodological tools available, selecting those best suited to speak to their questions of interest. Students will also be encouraged to be creative and bold in research design.
