Teaching

Teaching & Advising

  • I regularly teach: U.S. National Politics; Political Psychology; Women, Power and Politics; Media and Politics; Political Parties and Elections, Research Methods and Design;
  • First Year Seminars entitled “Adventures in Citizenship” and "Babes in Boyland: Women in Political Leadership;" and
  • Advising Senior Independent Study (year-long senior theses completed by every College of Wooster student).

There's some amazing stuff going on in my department at the College of Wooster! There's some footage in here of me and my colleagues doing some dynamic teaching and stories from our incredible students. Check it out!

Wooster Studies the National Party Conventions

I created and ran a program “Wooster Studies the National Party Conventions” in spring-summer 2016. (A TREK program at the College of Wooster.) Students took a course on the presidential election in spring 2016 where they developed collaborative research projects related to national party conventions; we took our classroom on the road in summer 2016 when we traveled to the RNC (Cleveland) and DNC (Philadelphia). Here they collected data to test their questions, connected with alumni and people central to the campaigns and conventions, attended media and think tank panels, and observed the conventions. Sidenote: One of our students found and returned Ivanka Trump's earring at the RNC.

Media & Politics - Campaign Advertisements

Students in my Media and Politics course work in teams to use political science research to create a campaign communications plan for an actual candidate for political office. Then they create a campaign advertisement that reflects their chosen strategies. Several of my students have gotten jobs based on the work they produced in my course. Check out some of their creations from Fall 2016!