Teaching

Instructor, Emory University

Research Methods II (MDP 517), Spring 2026. In this course, you will learn about qualitative research methods and analysis in a development context. We will focus on making sense of qualitative research processes while also building practical skills such as organizing and managing a database, determining a methodological approach, developing an analytical plan, codes and codebooks, coding and analyzing data, and presenting findings. We will discuss the relationships between qualitative data and development, and the role we play as researchers. You will develop themes, codes, and codebooks from your real-world datasets and use MAXQDA, a qualitative data management software program, to code, analyze, and visualize your data. The course will consist of lectures, discussions, and workshops where we work on tasks together.

Lecturer, Hamilton College

Law & Society (Soc 223), Spring 2025. This course examines the relationship between law and society from a social science perspective. Socio-legal scholars study how law patterns social behavior and functions in the real world, or what scholars call “law in action.” They investigate
law as a social institution embedded within social, political, cultural, and historical contexts, rather than viewing it as merely an authoritative text. We will discuss the relationship between law and society, the connection between law and social norms, the “law in action” across various social contexts, and how law relates to social change, including the role of law
in litigation, social movements, everyday life, and globalization. We will examine the different ways in which scholars think about and empirically study law and legal institutions.

Workshop Co-coordinator, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Latin America Colloquium (LAC), Academic Year 2022-2023. The Latin America Colloquium brings together graduate students and faculty with an area interest and research focus on Latin America. The group meets every other week to discuss published and in-progress articles, book chapters, and funding or grant proposals. We strive to being a collegial, interdisciplinary, and safe space where graduate students and faculty from different departments can share original research at any stage of development for constructive feedback. More information here.

Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Culture and the Global Workplace (Intl St 523), Summer 2023. This online seminar provides a theoretical framework to undergraduate students while they participate in internships internationally. The course critically explores the role of culture in shaping human experience and understanding and engages students in discussions regarding global and cultural competence and the challenges and opportunities of living and working interculturally. The course introduces students to basic principles of globalization and encourages students to integrate their academic coursework with their work experiences, career development goals and their personal skills and values.

Introduction to International Studies (Intl St 101), Fall 2022. This
course offers and interdisciplinary approach to global topics like migration and labor, international governance and law, human rights and global health, economic development and poverty alleviation, social movements and media, and more. You will learn foundational concepts, theories, and research methods, and analyze case studies to understand the impact of global interdependencies on peoples and places in other parts of the world.

Introduction to Survey Methods for Social Research (Soc 351), Spring 2021. This is an intermediate undergraduate research methodology course that introduces the principles underlying the uses of surveys for social research. This course provides practice in the methodological and statistical skills learned in introductory methods and statistics while teaching concepts and principles of survey methodology. The course is divided into four units. The first unit focuses on issues of how to represent a population using the basic concepts of sampling. The second unit focuses on issues surrounding data collection including study design, administration, and response rates. The second half of the course focuses on measurement. The third unit is about refining concepts and questionnaire design. The fourth unit focuses on writing and testing survey questions.

Population Problems (Soc 170), Fall 2020. This sociology course draws on materials and perspectives from the related fields of demography (the statistical study of populations) and epidemiology (the study of the distribution and determinants of health and disease states in populations). We examine how certain social phenomena—particularly structural inequality—influence and are reproduced by population change both globally and in the contemporary United States. Throughout the course, we focus on issues that feature in current social science and public policy debates, including population aging, fertility and reproduction, immigration, and social inequalities. We pay special attention to health disparities by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.

Reader, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Sociological Enterprise (Soc 211), Summer 2021. This course is intended to provide an introductory overview of the discipline of sociology, including (a) a selection of the sub-fields and specialized areas of research in sociology; (b) a variety of theoretical approaches to understanding social life; and (c) different research methods used by sociologists, both quantitative and qualitative.

Teaching Assistant, Universidad del Pacífico

Microeconomics II (2016)
Private Evaluation of Projects (2016-2017)