Teaching

Awards

• • Charles and Persis Rockwood Doctoral Fellowship, 2021-Present

  • Gapinski Award for Academic Excellence among First-Year Students, 2022

  • McCaleb Award for Teaching Excellence in Upper Division Courses, 2024

Instructor 

Undergraduate Level:

Games and Decisions (ECO 4400)

• • Summer 2024: 1 Section 9 Students, Individual Overall Rating: 4.83/5

  • This course is a non-technical introduction to strategic decision-making. Focus on situations involving conflict and cooperation and on decision-making under conditions of uncertainty and ignorance. Applies game theory and decision theory to such topics as bargaining and negotiations, contracting, auctions, and voting. 

 Principles of Macroeconomics (ECO 2013)

• • Summer 2023: 1 Sections, 46 Students, Individual Overall Rating: 3.76/5

  • This course explores aggregate economics and national income determination, money and monetary theory, present macroeconomic conditions, and aggregative policy alternatives; theory of international trade and the balance of payments; economic growth and development. 

Teaching Assistant

Graduate Level:

 Applied Econometrics (ECO 5420)

• • Fall 2023

  • This course introduces statistical concepts used in econometric thinking, reviews the classical linear regression model, and discusses applications to economic data. 

 Macroeconomic Theory II (ECO 5207)

• • Spring 2023

  • This course explores further macro dynamics, the quantity theory, determinants of the demand for and supply of money, and money models. 

 Macroeconomic Theory I (ECO 5204)

• • Fall 2022

  • This course introduces the basic tools in macroeconomic theory. 

Undergraduate Level:

 Experimental Economics (ECO 4455)

• • Spring 2025

  • This course is an introduction to the use of laboratory experimental economics, a relatively new method of economics research in which the classic model of laboratory experimentation is applied to microeconomics. The course is presented using both traditional lecture format and hands-on participation in different experimental economic formats. 

 Games and Decisions (ECO 4400)

• • Fall 2024

  • This course is a non-technical introduction to strategic decision-making. Focus on situations involving conflict and cooperation and on decision-making under conditions of uncertainty and ignorance. Applies game theory and decision theory to such topics as bargaining and negotiations, contracting, auctions, and voting 

 Behavioral Economics (ECO 4106)

• • Spring 2024

  • This course examines the consequences for economic analysis when individuals (and groups) deviate from rational behavior in identifiable and predictable ways, and incorporates these systematic biases into more accurate models of economic decision making 

 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory (ECO 3203)

• • Summer 2022

  • This course covers the basic model of income determination, emphasizing the roles of real and monetary sectors of the economy. Results of empirical work are surveyed. 

  Principles of Macroeconomics (ECO 2013)

• • Spring 2022

  • This course explores aggregate economics and national income determination, money and monetary theory, present macroeconomic conditions, and aggregative policy alternatives; theory of international trade and the balance of payments; economic growth and development. 

 Principles of Microeconomics (ECO 2023)

• • Fall 2021

  • This course covers consumption, production, and resource allocations considered from a private and social point of view; microeconomic problems and policy alternatives; economics of inequality and poverty; and comparative economic systems. 

 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory (ECO 3101)

• • Spring 2018

  • This course covers various topics such as supply, demand, cost of production, theory of the firm, factor price determination, and other microeconomic resource allocation questions. 

 Applied Microeconomic Analysis (ECO 3104)

• • Spring 2017

  • This course examines the applications of microeconomic theory for business and policy analysis. Topics include the theory of the firm, valuation techniques in the absence of market prices, empirical research with accounting, financial and administrative data, theory of supply and business strategy, cost-benefit methods.