Teaching Experience
Fall 2024, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Montana State University.
PSCI 553: Qualitative Research Methods (Graduate Level)
Students will get an introduction to research methods focusing on foundations of social science, qualitative data collection, management, and analysis techniques. This course focuses on applied methods (e.g., interviews, focus groups, participant observation, archives, ethnography) with hands-on opportunities for research design, analysis, and write-up/presentation/reporting. The course will better prepare graduate students for both future academic work (papers or theses) as well as professional career opportunities and skill building. This class operates like a seminar with additional workshops, whereby students have the responsibility to come to class having read and prepared to participate in classroom discussions. Classroom sessions may also take place in a computer lab for hands-on instruction or other sites for practical exercises. At the completion of this course, students will:
1. Learn how to collect qualitative data by applying various concepts and frameworks.
2. Design qualitative research and apply various qualitative methods.
3. Understand how to manage data using qualitative data management systems and reference management tools (e.g., NVivo, Zotero).
4. Review the relationship and distinction between qualitative and quantitative data management techniques and protocols (SMR vs. MMR).
5. Analyze and present qualitative data through conceptual maps, matrices, and networks.
6. Communicate qualitative results in both oral and written form.
Spring 2024, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Montana State University.
PSCI 552: Public Policy Processes (Graduate Level)
This course reviews the development of public policy over time and the actors, events, and contexts surrounding this development. It is how (a) issues are conceptualized and brought to the government as problems requiring some kind of action; (b) policies are designed and selected; and (c) policies are implemented, monitored, evaluated, and revised. Trying to understand and explain the policy processes requires an understanding of the relationships among numerous factors in a dynamic system. Hundreds of government and non-government actors (sometimes referred to as state and non-state stakeholders) with different beliefs and interests engage in the policy processes; their interactions are embedded in a context that has its own history, sense of place, local knowledge, and institutions/rules. How can we possibly make sense of it all? How can we participate and be effective in achieving our goals in such a complex system? We will start to sift through this complexity by understanding and applying different public policy theories to identify the critical factors that explain the policy processes. In this course, we seek to explain the why and the how of policy by learning about several different policy theories.
Spring 2024, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Montana State University.
PSCI 551: Quantitative Research Methods (Graduate Level)
This course serves as a broad overview of quantitative research design, data collection methods, analysis, visualization, and reporting in the social sciences. At the end of this course, students should (1) demonstrate a working understanding of quantitative research designs, tools, and forms of analysis and their use; (2) be capable of identifying elements of effective research questions, design, models, and methods in quantitative research; (3) demonstrate a working knowledge and capacity of statistical analyses and how to properly report them; and (4) show relatively advanced skills in the areas of analysis, synthesis of information and ideas, decision-making, and communication.
Fall 2023/24, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Montana State University.
PSCI 554: Foundations of Public Administration (Graduate Level)
This course reviews the theoretical, historical, and intellectual foundations of public administration and prepares students to take the comprehensive exam and conduct research in the field of public administration. It examines the relationships between public administration theory and practice, the political context, and the intellectual heritage of the field, between the basic functions and processes of public administration, as well as the relationship between public administration and contemporary issues of governance facing the public sector.
Spring 2023, Teaching Assistant, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh.
PIA 2023: Intermediate Quantitative Methods (Graduate Level), Professor Gary Hollibaugh.
In charge of teaching recitations, grading problem sets, and holding office hours
Fall 2022, Teaching Assistant, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh.
PIA 2022: Quantitative Methods (Graduate Level), Rena Sung.
In charge of teaching recitations, grading problem sets, and holding office hours
Fall 2019, Teaching Assistant, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh.
PIA 2359: Civil War and Conflict Resolution (Graduate Level), Professor Taylor B. Seybolt.
PIA 2307: Human Security (Graduate Level), Professor Taylor B. Seybolt.
In charge of organizing syllabi, assigning course materials, and assisting students on CourseWeb