Teaching

I've taught the following courses:

Government 2001: Advanced Quantitative Research Methodology (Gary King, Spring 2010)

Teaching Fellow.  Mean student evaluation score of 4.2 out of 5. The second half of the graduate methods sequence, this course covered advanced statistical topics, including maximum likelihood estimation, event count models, missing data, ecological inference, text analysis, research design, and causal inference.  All materials were taught using the R statistical language.

 

Government 2000: Introduction to Quantitative Methods (Adam Glynn, Fall 2009) 

Teaching Fellow.  Mean student evaluation score of 4.1 out of 5. The first half of the graduate methods sequence, this course covered introductory statistical topics, including basic probability, sampling distributions, univariate and multivariate linear regression, and causal inference.  All materials were taught using the R statistical language.

Government 2453: Practical & Theoretical Regulation of Voting (Jim Greiner & Kevin Quinn, Fall 2008)

Teaching Fellow. Unevaluated. Cross-registered with the Harvard Law School. An interdiscplinary look at points of contact between legal scholarship on voting rights and election law and the political science literature on redistricting, voting behavior, and elections. Emphasis placed on how observed data can be, and should be, used as evidenceGovernment 1510: American Constitutional Law (Richard Fallon, Fall 2008)

Head Teaching Fellow.  Mean student evaluation score of 4.8 out of 5. Awarded Harvard Certificate for Distinction in Teaching. This course is an introduction to American constitutional law for undergraduates, with a principal focus on decisions by the Supreme Court of the US. Topics to be studied include freedom of speech and religion, guarantees of due process and equal protection, and the powers of Congress and the courts.

Government 2069: Religion and the First Amendment (Martha Nussbaum, Fall 2007)

Teaching Fellow (Unevaluated). Covers the major legal issues in this area, focusing on the relationship between the Establishment clause and the Free Exercise clause and underlying concepts, such as freedom, equality, non-hierarchy, separation, and neutrality that are involved, and frequently interwoven (sometimes none too clearly), in the legal tradition.