Currently Teaching: PhD Public Economics: Expenditures
Instruction Experience
Graduate Public Economics: Fall 2020, Spring 2024, Spring 2025
Intermediate Microeconomic Theory: Fall 2019 (2 section), Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2023
Public Finance: Spring 2020, Maymester 2021, Fall 2021 (2 sections)
Public Sector Economics (2 sections): Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019
Principles of Microeconomics: Summer 2014
International Teaching Experience
Instructor, International Trade, Audencia Business School, Nantes, France (January 2018)
Instructor, Public Economics, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, India (January 2019)
Teaching Awards
Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2024)
College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Award, Vanderbilt University (2021)
Department of Economics Graduate Student Teaching Award, Texas A&M University (2014)
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"Dr. Packham is passionate about the course material and effectively presents it in an interesting and engaging way. The course expectations, assignments, study guides, etc. were very clear and effectively communicated."
"Her communication skills and making the content relatable to our lives made it easier to learn and more interesting to be in class."
"Dr. Packham showed a lot of enthusiasm for the topic and welcomed all questions from students. Her classroom was a good learning environment."
"She was always happy to help and it felt like she was excited about the professor-student relationship."
“Very intelligent and good at reaching students. Definitely gifted!”
“Did a great job making the class interesting and kept my attention well 10/10 would learn from again.”
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