Centre College
Visiting Assistant Professor (2024- )
In-Person:
Fall 2025(x2), Spring 2026(x2)
An introduction to economic theory and applications. We will construct useful economic models of human behavior, production, pricing, distribution, monetary policy, foreign trade, and the business cycle.
In-Person:
Spring 2025, Fall 2025(x2), Spring 2026, Fall 2026(x2)
This course is the first step to being able to find a quantitative answer to interesting economic questions like:
Why do people vape instead of smoking cigarettes?
What factors contribute to the development of heart disease?
What is the increase in lifetime income from an extra year of education?
To answer these questions, we collect data and carefully apply the appropriate econometric techniques. In this class we will learn that these econometric techniques can be used to answer a wide variety of economic questions that relate to a country, a region, a company, a household, or an individual. Being able to confidently provide quantitative answers to these and many other important questions helps us improve ours and others’ understanding the world.
In-Person:
Fall 2026
We will use economic analysis to understand labor markets. The course will introduce students to major labor market indicators and develop tools of economic analysis of labor demand decisions by profit-maximizing firms and labor supply decisions by rational workers. We will examine labor market structures and both existing and potential government policies which determine wages, earnings, employment, and hours worked. We will also examine the relationship between the labor market and investments in physical and human capital.
In-Person:
Winter 2025
This course explores how food poverty is measured and addressed in the United States and around the world. We will investigate the food assistance programs provided in the United States and compare them to similar programs around the world. Further, we will study how policymakers evaluate the objectives for these food assistance programs along with the changes to programs throughout time.
In-Person:
Fall 2024(x2), Spring 2025(x2)
This Senior Seminar is designed to round out your Centre economics experience with opportunities to polish skills in economics, research, writing, data analysis, and verbal expression, which will be necessary in almost any career. This is a transitional course where you will identify policy questions that are important to you, apply the tools of economics to seek answers resourcefully, and disseminate credible results. We will further develop the skills for synthesizing research to build a greater understanding of how to navigate the informational age. Lastly, this course provides an avenue where we can improve our skills of providing and receiving constructive criticism.
University of Kentucky
Instructor (2021-2024)
In-Person:
Fall 2021, Spring 2023, Fall 2023
Hybrid:
Spring 2021
Asynchronous:
Spring 2022, Spring 2024
This course provides an introduction to the principles of microeconomics. The course serves as a starting core course for business majors as well as students across the university. Includes material covering how markets work, the economics of the public sector, and firm behavior along with an additional discussion regarding poverty and inequality.
In-Person (Recitation Leader):
Fall 2022
Asynchronous:
Summer 2022
The course provides a survey of statistical techniques relevant to modern economics and business with an emphasis on estimation, hypothesis testing, correlation, modeling, and regression. Many upper division courses in Accounting, Agricultural Economics, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing, and Public Policy use and build upon the statistical techniques and analysis learned in ECO 391.
Prerequisites: STA 296 (Statistical Methods) or equivalent.
Asynchronous:
Summer 2023
The second undergraduate course in microeconomic theory and builds upon the principles developed in ECO 201. Study the behavior of individual decisions makers: households, firms, and resource owners as well as their interactions within markets. Calculus-based course that is a requirement for the economics major.
Prerequisites: ECO 201 and ECO 202 or equivalent with a grade equivalent of C or higher.
Asynchronous:
Summer 2021
The second undergraduate course in macroeconomic theory and builds upon the principles developed in ECO 202. Study the behavior of the economy as a whole. The course presents the macroeconomic data and develops models to help understand the aggregate facts. Discussion of macro data, classical theory, unemployment and labor, economic growth, and business cycles. Calculus-based course that is a requirement for the economics major.
Prerequisites: ECO 401 or equivalent.
Additional Teaching Experience
Guest Lecturer
Undergraduate Audience
“Introduction to SNAP: Food Assistance (In-Kind vs. Cash Transfer)”
Building a foundation of social safety net policy for early undergraduates students
Identifying the key differences between in-kind and cash transfers through a comparison of the SNAP program with other social programs
“SNAP: Food Assistance”
Deepening the understanding of the social safety net policy for upper-level undergraduates students
Identifying the key impacts food assistance programs with a particular focus on how the largest food assistance program (SNAP) impacts health, labor, and social program participation outcomes
Two fall sections for upper-level undergraduate economics majors
"Mathematics Review" lectures to begin the semester
Calculus and graph review
"Monopoly" lectures in November 2023
Monopolist profit maximization and dead weight loss
Section of roughly 400 early undergraduate students
"Costs & Production" lecture
Short Run vs. Long Run Costs
Various Measures of Costs
Graduate Audience
Ph.D. Agricultural Economics students
“Understanding the Methodology of Food Policy Research with Time-Varying Treatment – Staggered Treatment TWFE”
A discussion of econometric methods for food policy research with staggered treatment
Using “The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Online Purchasing Pilot’s Impact on Food Insufficiency.” as an example
Teaching Awards
Graduate Student Teaching Award, Department of Economics, University of Kentucky, 2023