Tim Fraser enjoys teaching undergraduates on a variety of topics, including renewable energy politics, environmental politics, disaster policy, research methods, and statistics.
Spring 2020
Tim talks with students at NU fair for recruiting undergraduate research students, Fall 2021
Quantitative Techniques
Comparative Politics
American Politics
American Political Thought
Gender, Sexuality, & Policy
Disasters and Recovery in Japan
Japanese Greenhouse Gas Emissions (2020)
Disasters & Renewable Energy (2020)
Mayors & Renewable Energy (2020)
Hurricane Sandy Masters Capstone (2020)
Louisiana Parishes Masters Captsone (2020)
Hokkaido Earthquake Evacuation (2020)
Tohoku Recovery Committees (Fall 2019, Spring 2020)
Mapping Social Infrastructure (Fall 2021)
Working with Tim, students developed an online map of community spaces, places of worship, social businesses, and parks in Boston.
Together with Tim, students collected data on 600 members of local disaster recovery policy committees in NYC neighborhoods, and measured policy differences with text analysis.
Together with Tim, students coded Louisiana Parishes' recovery strategies after Hurricane Katrina, and tested effects on recovery with Synthetic Control Experiment. (Won departmental award!)
Study Abroad Program Assistant (2018)
Course: Disasters & Recovery in Japan
Destinations: Tohoku, Kobe, Hiroshima, Tokyo
Led student research advising, translation, and trips.
Tim leads study abroad class visit to Ishinomaki, Japan, to learn about residents' recovery strategies
Our course team in action!