Teaching
Prior to joining UTEP, I taught as a Visiting Instructor at Wellesley College and a Teaching Fellow at the University of California, Merced.
In the Spring of 2025 I am teaching Ethnicity and Race in American Politics and Introduction to American Politics (online).
Classes I have taught most recently (2023-2024):
American Political Behavior (graduate seminar) (Fall 2024, Spring 2023)
Introduction to American Politics (Fall 2024, Spring 2024) (hybrid and online)
Public Opinion, Media, & Technology (Spring 2024)
Quantitative Methods I (graduate seminar) (Fall 2023)
Research in Political Science (Fall 2023)
Political Communication (graduate seminar) (Summer 2023)
Political Psychology (Spring 2023; T3 - Spring 2021, Wellesley College)
Other classes I have taught:
The Presidency (2019 departmental teaching award)
-
structured as a class to understand how the Office of the Presidency operates (institutional focus) and how we select people into the Office of the Presidency (behavioral focus)
Voting Behavior, Campaigns, and Elections
-
structured as a project-building course that allows students to learn the fundamentals of the topic while applying the concepts to the 2020 Presidential Election
I prioritize adaptivity and flexibility in my approach to teaching. I believe universal design for learning helps boost inclusivity and strive towards equity in the classroom to give all students a more beneficial educational experience. Teaching at University of California, Merced, a minority-majority and largely first generation institution, has reaffirmed my belief that instructor adaptivity and a student-centered teaching style are an important foundation to every course.