Courses Taught (University Of North Texas)
Syllabi for all courses are available on my UNT Faculty Profile webpage.
- PSCI 2306 (formerly PSCI 1040): US and Texas Constitutions and Institutions (Fall 2016, Spring 2017; Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023)
- PSCI 3120: Women & Politics (Spring 2017, Spring 2019)
- PSCI 3130: Interest Groups (Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Fall 2022)
- PSCI 4490: The Policymaking Process (Spring 2020 and Spring 2022)
- PSCI 5030: Proseminar in American Political Institutions (Spring 2023)
- PSCI 6160: Interest Group Politics (Fall 2020, Fall 2022)
Advising (university of North Texas)
- Founding Faculty Convener, American Politics Graduate Student Research Group, 2024-Current
- Dissertation Committee Member for Lanie Richards, Current
- Dissertation Committee Member for Amy Friesenhahn, Does Gender Representation Matter? Gender, Descriptive and Substantive Representation, and Women-Friendly Districts, PhD, 2020.
- Dissertation Committee Member for Meredith Niezgoda, This is What Democracy Looks Like: Racial Identity, Anger, and the Political Behavior of White Women, PhD, 2023
- Dissertation Committee Member for DeAnne Roark, Promoting Women? Cause and Effects of Gender-Informed Transitional Justice, PhD 2023
- Dissertation Committee Member for Joshua Montgomery, Partisan Bias in Broadcast and Cable News: Testing Three Theories of News Generation in the First Trump Impeachment, PhD 2024
- Dissertation Committee Member for Stephanie Wise, Causes and Consequences of Presidential Legitimacy Rhetoric, PhD 2024
- Master's Thesis, Co-Chair for Jessica Lambert, Does Policy Lead to Progress? An Investigation into the Relationship Between Women-Friendly Policies and Women’s Descriptive Representation, MS 2023
- Master's Committee Member for D'Ann Shaw, The Great Equalizer? An Analysis of the Relationship between Race, Severe Weather Disasters, and Climate Change Policy Support, MA 2023
Training and Professional Development
University of Minnesota Political Science Teaching Conference, July 2014
Preparing Future Faculty: Teaching in Higher Education, University of Minnesota, Fall 2013.
Teaching with Writing Workshop, University of Minnesota, Fall 2013.
- Participated in pre-conference on gender in academia.
- Participated in sessions on teaching the introduction to American politics; using current events effectively in class; teaching student writing; engaging students with issues of race, class, and gender; and teaching in a variety of institutional settings.
Preparing Future Faculty: Teaching in Higher Education, University of Minnesota, Fall 2013.
- Learned to develop personal approach and philosophy towards teaching that is informed by student learning outcomes and active learning strategies.
- Considered how teaching is informed by disciplinary and institutional contexts.
Teaching with Writing Workshop, University of Minnesota, Fall 2013.
- Participated in two-day seminar on how to grade and effectively comment on student writing