teaching

I’m an award-winning teacher (and Full Professor with tenure) of political science and public policy in the Department of Political Science at Emory University.

My courses cover general topics and particular subjects, varying student exposure to normative theory as guide, writing as craft, and research methods as skills. They include lecture-based courses and seminars at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

My contributions to pedagogical innovations within Emory’s College of Arts & Sciences include co-designing the Community Building and Social Changes Fellows Program and the Public Policy and Analysis Major.

At Emory University, I’ve held administrative positions focused on curricular design, development, and reform, as well as pedagogy and practicums. They included Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Political Science and Senior Co-Director of the Mellon Foundation Graduate Teaching Fellowship of the Laney Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at Emory University. I’ve also held administrative positions focused on graduate admissions (e.g., Director of Graduate Admissions & Placement in the Department of Political Science).

undergraduate courses

Cities, Power, and Cinema (seminar)

Community Building & Social Change (lecture)

Directed Readings on the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Interest Group Politics (lecture)

Nonprofits and Politics (lecture)

Policing and Politics (empirical research course and lecture)

Politics & Punishment (writing-intensive, empirical research seminar)

Public Policy (lecture)

Race, Politics, and the Atlanta Paradox (writing intensive, research seminar)

Religion & Social Welfare Policy (seminar)

Urban Politics (lecture)

Urban Public Policy (lecture)

graduate courses

Directed Readings in Policing & Politics

Directed Readings in Public Policy Processes

Directed Readings in Urban Politics

Governance and Nongovernmental Organizations in the United States

Politics & Punishment

Religion & Social Welfare Policy

Urban Politics