Graduate course, Duke University, Department of Political Science, 2024
This course covers basic techniques in quantitative political analysis with a focus on linear regression. It introduces students to widely used procedures for regression analysis, and provides intuitive, applied, and formal foundations for linear regression as well as some extensions.
Undergraduate course, Duke University, Department of Political Science, 2023
Political theorist Adam Przeworski succinctly described democracy as “a system in which parties lose elections.” But how are elections organized, what are political parties, and what factors determine who wins and loses? How do candidates and campaigns compete for votes, and how do voters choose between them? This course addresses these questions, among others related to campaigns and elections, with a focus on the United States. It is conducted in an unstructured seminar style with a heavy emphasis on reading, in-class discussion, and written engagement with foundational and cutting-edge political science scholarship.
Undergraduate course, Duke University, Department of Political Science, 2023
Political scientists commonly refer to politics as the process of deciding who gets what. This course addresses questions concerning how politics works in the United States. Why does the United States have its system of government, how can we evaluate whether it is working as intended, and how might we change it? What is public opinion, and how does it bear on public policy? How do people decide whether to vote and who to vote for? In short, how does the United States decide who gets what?
Graduate course, Northeastern University, Department of Political Science, 2023
This class provided a high-level introduction for students who wished to learn how to conduct and evaluate social science research at the graduate and professional level. While we introduced specific methods, we focused on general principles and perspectives of the social sciences. The goals of the class were to assess scholarly literature in the social sciences, to identify interesting research questions, to formulate strategies for answering them, to understand which qualitative or quantitative tools will best address a given theoretical question, and to know how and where to find the resources that would later help one develop further expertise.
Undergraduate course, Northeastern University, Department of Political Science, 2022
This course explored major public policy issues and challenges facing American democracy that were placed in stark relief by the COVID-19 pandemic. Each session considered a different theme. We drew heavily on insights from the COVID States Project, a monthly survey of all 50 states on attitudes and behaviors around COVID and various other issues that have arisen during the pandemic. Themes included (but were not limited to): public trust, public health infrastructure, health communication, partisan polarization, socio-economic inequality, racism, executive leadership, misinformation, the proper role of federalism, fiscal policy during crises, and mental health. The course was predominantly focused on the United States, though addressed some international aspects.