Teaching

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Awards

• Class Teacher Award
  • LSE, 2024
• Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award
  • UCSD, 2023

Contributions to Teaching and Learning

• Active Learning in Data Analytics
  • Class Activities for Quantitative Methods Courses
• Foundations of Quantitative Research in Political Science
  • With M. Alcocer, A. Lange, N. Smith, and M. Feeley
• How Can Quantitative Methods Enhance Research in HE?
  • LSE Higher Education Blog

Teaching Experience

• GV101: Introduction to Political Science (LSE)
  • Entry-level course on comparative politics (seminar teacher.)
• POLI 5: Data Analytics for the Social Sciences (UCSD)
  • Entry-level quantitative methods course using a flipped-classroom approach (course designer and primary instructor.)
• POLI 134: Introduction to Latin American Politics (UCSD)
  • Upper-division course (course designer and primary instructor.)
• Research Proposal Workshop (Instituto Itéramãxe)
  • Volunteer work to support graduate school applications in Brazil (course designer and primary instructor.)

Mentorship and Service

• Member of the Teaching Committee, LSE Department of Government.
• Member of the Political Science Department Task Force on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.
  • Contributed to reforming the Summer Bootcamp for incoming PhD students.
• Mentor in the Research Apprenticeship Program (UCSD)
  • Worked with students to improve supplemental online instruction in political methods and conduct an experiment to test their efficacy.
• Guest lecturer in the UCSD Political Science Department’s Summer research academy attended by students from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
• Currently advising LSE student research on democracy measurements.