teaching
University of California, Berkeley
Senior Honors Thesis
Statistics and Methods Tutor, Fall 2024 and Spring 2025
Instructors: Terri Bimes and Amy Gurowitz
I supervise students’ independent honor theses, providing advice on design, analysis, and coding. Each week I have three hours of office hours. So far, I have supervised projects using qualitative interviews, text analysis, spatial analysis using geocoding, and survey analysis.
Intro to American Politics, UC Berkeley
Graduate Student Instructor, Spring 2024
Instructor: Paul Pierson
Held two weekly sections for a total of three hours of instruction time with an additional two hours of office hours. Graded assignments like essays and exams and taught students fundamental concepts in American politics. Topics included collective action problems, legislative entrenchment, the history of slavery in the United States, and information asymmetry among voters.
Tufts University
Political Science Research Methods
Teaching Assistant, Spring 2022
Instructor: Brian Schaffner
Held office hours and review sessions to support students learning R and statistics for political science. Topics included descriptive statistics, regression, experimental design, types of statistical tests, and replication. Led one lecture on the use of RMarkdown, project coding structure, and basic inferential statistics in R.
Public Opinion Lab,
Teaching Assistant, Fall 2021 and Spring 2022
Instructor: Brian Schaffner
Supervised student research, theses, and independent projects on the matter of public opinion. In the spring, led a collaborative lab project on asymmetric polarization and weaponization of the term “critical race theory.”