Teaching Experience

 

Associate Professor, Kent State University (2010-present):  At the doctoral level, I teach the two-semester, quantitative, research methods sequence and the American Politics Proseminar.  At the undergraduate level, I teach Research Methods, American Politics, and Public Opinion and Political Behavior.

 

Assistant Professor, Kent State University (2005-2010)

 

Graduate Fellow, UC Davis—Washington Center (2004-2005):  Provided instruction and guidance for student research projects and assisted in implementing the core internship/research courses.

 

Instructor, UC Davis (Summer, 2004):  Designed and taught the required methodology course for undergraduate political science majors.

 

Teaching Assistant, UC Davis, Graduate Methods Sequence (2003-2004):  Designed and taught labs on data management, statistical analysis, and programming in STATA; consulted with graduate students on research designs; graded homework.

 

Teaching Assistant, UC Davis, Undergraduate Courses (2000-2003):  Research Methods, American National Government, and Introduction to Comparative Politics.

 

Links to Teaching Materials:

Syllabus:  Undergraduate Political Methods

 

Syllabus:  Graduate Public Policy Methods I

 

Syllabus:  Graduate Public Policy Methods II

 

Syllabus:  Undergraduate American Politics

 

Syllabus:  Undergraduate Public Opinion & Political Behavior

 

Syllabus:  Graduate Proseminar in American Politics

1.

Edmund Randolph

Virginia

2.

Nathaniel Gorham

Massachusetts

3.

John Dickinson

Delaware

4.

John Rutledge

South Carolina

5.

James Wilson

Pennsylvania

6.

Oliver Ellsworth

Connecticut

7.

Charles Pinckney

South Carolina

8.

James Madison

Virginia

9.

Elbridge Gerry

Massachusetts

 

10.

William Samuel Johnson

Connecticut

11.

George Mason

Virginia

12.

George Washington

Virginia

13.

Benjamin Franklin

Pennsylvania

14.

Rufus King

Massachusetts

15.

William Paterson

New Jersey

16.

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

South Carolina

17.

Gouverneur Morris

Pennsylvania

18.

Alexander Hamilton

New York

 

19.

George Read

Delaware

20.

William R. Davie

North Carolina

21.

John Langdon

New Hampshire

22.

Luther Martin

Maryland

23.

Roger Sherman

Connecticut

24.

Gunning Bedford, Jr.

Delaware

25.

Abraham Baldwin

Georgia

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