Courses Taught (University Of North Texas)

Syllabi for all courses are available on my UNT Faculty Profile webpage.

Undergraduate Courses Taught
  • PSCI 1040/PSCI 2306: US and Texas Constitutions and Institutions (Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026)
  • PSCI 3120: Women and Politics (Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Fall 2023)
  • PSCI 3130: Interest Groups (Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Fall 2022, Spring 2026)
  • PSCI 4490: Policymaking Process (Spring 2020, Spring 2022 
​Graduate Courses Taught
  • PSCI 5030: Proseminar in American Political Institutions (Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025)
  • PSCI 6160: Interest Groups Politics (Fall 2020, Fall 2022, Fall 2024)
  • PSCI 6150: Gender and Politics (Fall 2025)
  • PSCI 6900: Qualitative Coding Directed Reading (Ph.D. level, Meredith Niezgoda, Spring 2019)
  • PSCI 5900: Applied Lobbying Directed Reading (MA-level, Joesph Langton, Spring 2025)
  • PSCI 6900: LGBTQ+ Politics Directed Reading (Ph.D. level, Michael Elwell, Summer 2025)

Advising & Mentoring (university of North Texas)

  • Founding Faculty Convener, American Politics Graduate Student Research Group, 2024-Current
  • Dissertation Committee Co-Chair, Michael Elwell, Current
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair, Dyan Knapp, Current
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Lanie Richards, Ph.D., 2026
    • Title: “Congressional Conflict: How Increases in Racial and Gender Diversity Shapes Legislator Backlash”
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Joshua Montgomery, PhD., 2024
    • Title: “Partisan Bias in Broadcast and Cable News: Testing Three Theories of News Generation in the First Trump Impeachment”
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Stephanie Wise, Ph.D., 2024
    • Title: “Causes and Consequences of Presidential Legitimacy Rhetoric”
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Meredith Niezgoda, Ph.D, 2023
    • Title: “This is What Democracy Looks Like: Racial Identity, Anger, and the Political Behavior of White Women”
  • Dissertation Committee Member, DeAnne Roark, Ph.D., 2023
    • Title: “Promoting Women? Cause and Effects of Gender-Informed Transitional Justice”
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Amy Friesenhahn, Ph.D., 2020
    • Title: “Does Gender Representation Matter? Gender, Descriptive and Substantive Representation and Women-Friendly Districts”
  • Master’s Committee Member, Teryn Husband, MA, 2024
  • Master’s Thesis Co-Chair, Jessica Lambert, MS, 2023
    • Title: “Does Policy Lead to Progress? An Investigation into the Relationship Between Women-Friendly Policies and Women’s Descriptive Representation”
  • Master’s Thesis Committee Member, D’Ann Shaw, MA, 2023
    • Title: “The Great Equalizer? An Analysis of the Relationship between Race, Severe Weather Disasters, and Climate Change Policy Support”
  • Undergraduate Senior Capstone Project (PSCI 4954), Vanessa Taylor, Spring 2018
    • Title: “Adjusting Sexual Assault Prevention and Response: Cultural Impact on Principal-Agent Relationships in Military Sexual Assault”
  • Graduate Student Faculty Advisor, Riley Davis
  • Graduate Student Faculty Advisor, Brett Davis

Training and Professional Development


Association of College and University Educators, Effective Teaching Practices Certification Program, 2023-2024
  • 25 module program
  • Each module took 2-3 hours to complete and required the implementation of a new teaching practice during one of our classes along with a written reflection on how effectively we implemented each new practice

University of Minnesota Political Science Teaching Conference, July 2014  
  • 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