Teaching

This spring, I am teaching POSC 8410, the second course in the Clemson’s PhD methods sequence. I am also teaching POSC 3710, European Politics.

At Clemson, I have taught the following classes:

  • POST 8000: Introduction to Social Science Research Methods: This is the first course in the graduate methods sequence, which introduces students to probabilty theory and statistics, as well as the fundamentals of research design. We cover probability including univariate and multivariate distributions, hypothesis testing and regressions, as well as approaches to statistical inference. The course is taught using the R programming language.

At Georgia State, I have taught the following classes:

  • POL4900: Representation and Inequality in Democratic Societies: 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.

  • POL8820: Text-as-Data for Social Scientists: This course covered a range of techniques for working with text data, from creating descriptive representation of text data through more advanced techniques including topic models, embeddings and supervised classification models. The class finished with a discussion of how use transformer models like BERT and GPT for social science research.

At Princeton, I have taught the following classes:

  • POL 981: 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.