Teaching

I have experience teaching a wide range of classes and and students from different backgrounds. Prior to my time at Princeton, I taught both algebra and geometry to freshmen and sophomores at Lawrence International Academy, a public high school in Lawrence, Massachusetts. At Princeton, I won the George Kateb Award, which is awarded annually to the best preceptors (Teaching Assistants) in the Politics Department. At Georgia State, I am currently teaching a senior seminar on “Representation and Inequality” and am in the process of developing a graduate level text-as-data course to be taught in the summer of 2023.

At Georgia State, I have taught the following classes:

  • POL4900: Representation and Inequality in Democratic Societies (Instructor of Record): In this course, students engage with theories of representation. Students grapple with why some groups are less well represented than others, both substantively and descriptively. We spend the latter half of the course covering the political and social consequences of inequalities in representation and close with a discussion on potential institutional reforms that could ameliorate some of these inequalities.

At Princeton, I have taught the following classes:

  • POL 981 (Plenary Leader): The Junior Independent Work Research Design Seminar. Fall 2017 and Fall 2018. In this class, I developed my own content to teach the basics of research design, including statistical, experimental and qualitative methods, to juniors in preparation for their independent research projects. I was awarded the George Kateb Prize for my teaching in this course. Because the class is a required departmental seminar, no course reviews were collected.

  • POL 322 (Preceptor): Public Opinion with Professor Tali Mendelberg, Spring 2018

    This course is an introduction to the study of public opinion. We pay particular attention to the questions of how people form their political opinions, to inequalities in responsiveness to public opinion, and to the public's competence to govern. I led three seminars per week, and also presented a guest lecture during one of the final weeks of the class. I received an average score of 4.4/5 on the teaching evaluations from students, well above the departmental average.

  • POL 335 (Preceptor): American Political Economy with Professor Nolan McCarty, Fall 2020

    This course focuses on the intersection of politics and economics in the American system. We covered a wide range of topics including economic inequality, polarization, the role of money in politics and the political economy of federalism and multi-level governance. This class was taught on line via zoom. I received excellent reviews from students for my teaching in this class (average 4.8/5).