My teaching interests span public policy, the American Presidency, agenda-setting, American government and political institutions, social policy with a special emphasis in health and aging policy, and social science statistics and research methodology.
Teaching Experience at San Francisco State University:
- Scientific Inquiry in Political Science- (Undergraduate Upper Level) FA 2018, FA & SP 2019, SP 2020, FA 2022, FA 2023
- Modern Citizenship: Pundits, Podcasts, and Political Know-How in the 21st Century- (Undergraduate Upper Level) SP 2020, SP 2023
- Fundamentals of Political Science- (Undergraduate Upper Level) FA 2020, FA 2021, FA & SP 2022, FA & SP 2023
- Introduction to American Politics- (Undergraduate Lower Level) SU 2020, SU 2021, SU 2022
- The U.S. Congress- (Undergraduate Upper Level) FA 2021
- Essentials of California Politics- (Undergraduate Upper Level) FA 2020
- The American Presidency- (Undergraduate Upper Level) FA 2018, FA 2020
- Topics in American Politics: How to Choose a U.S. President- (Undergraduate Upper Level) SP 2020
- American Politics Seminar- (Graduate) FA 2019
Research Mentoring
I have mentored the following M.A. Thesis projects in political science:
- Luke Heslip, M.A. The External Party Coalition: How Democratic-allied interest groups financially
contributed to congressional candidates from 2012-2020. Defended Spring 2023 (Chair) - Emily Woo, M.A., Vote Blue No Matter Who? Political Alienation and the Voter Turnout of Minority
Groups in the 2016 Presidential Election. Defended Summer 2022 (Second reader)
I have also mentored undergraduate research projects in political science:
- 2022-2023: Gillian Welcher, Gerrymandering and Voter Disenfranchisement -How District Lines are Used to Suppress the Vote and How We Might Fix It. Research supported by the Marcus Undergraduate Research Fellowship program.
- 2020-2021: Fiona Dewitt, Defining Rurality: An Exploration of the Rural-Urban Connection in Different Parts of the United States. Research supported by the Marcus Undergraduate Research Fellowship program.
- 2019: Abigail Richards, Congressional Influence on the Supreme Court Agenda, San Francisco State University. Winner of the 2019 Gloria Rummels Award for Best Use of Quantitative Data at the Annual Social Science Student Symposium.
- 2017-2018: Mark Goldberg, Race, Constituency, and Representation in the U.S. House of Representatives, The University of Texas at Austin.
- 2016-2017: Kevin Valenzuela, Are All Rights Created Equal? A Statistical Re-examination of the Human Rights Committee, The University of Texas at Austin.
- 2015-2016: Martin Gutierrez, The Role of Attention in Regulation of the U.S. Financial Market, The University of Texas at Austin.