I have designed and taught a range of graduate and undergraduate courses in research methods, higher education, statistics, sociology, and nonprofits in multiple modalities. In my courses, I encourage students to use theory to develop and assess explanations for the relationships evident in the social world. I emphasize the critical evaluation of empirical research in all of my courses to provide students with the skills necessary to be critical consumers of research. In my graduate courses I also integrate the development of original research or applied projects so that students themselves can be good producers of social research.
I was nominated for the Golden Mustang Teaching Award at SMU in 2020 and also received a Pedagogical Partner Up Grant in 2020 to support my participation in learning pods which served as an opportunity for faculty to “enhance their own pedagogical knowledge while sharing with colleagues.” Prior to my time at SMU I received the William K. Bunis Graduate Student Teaching Award in recognition of the quality of my teaching from the School of Sociology at the University of Arizona in 2011.
Department of Education Policy and Leadership, Southern Methodist University
Organizational Theory in Higher Education (EPL 7393)
Systematic Inquiry 1: Research Design (EPL 7350)
Academic Leadership (EPL 7381)
Systematic Inquiry II: Quantitative Data Analysis (EPL 7351)
Faculty and Academic Governance (EPL 6363)
Applied Dissertation (EPL 7355)
Institute of Higher Education, University of Georgia
The Role of Nonprofits in the U.S. Higher Education Industry: Private Universities, Public University Foundations, and Policy Organizations (EDHI 9020)
Advanced Topics in Mixed Methods and Applied Research (EDHI 9020)
School of Sociology, University of Arizona
Complex Organizations (SOC 422)
Social Research Methods (SOC 275)
Social Statistics (SOC 274)
Introduction to Sociology (SOC 101)