I have had the pleasure of teaching a number of classes related to health politics and policy, American political institutions, lawmaking, and public policy more broadly. Feel free to reach out for additional teaching-related materials.
University of Pittsburgh (2024-present):
Wheaton College (2022-2024)
Oberlin College (2021-2022):
Tufts University (2018-19):
Yale University (2016-17):
Washington University in St. Louis (2015-16):
University of Pittsburgh (2024-present):
- Instructor for undergraduate lecture on Introduction to Health Policy and Management (fall 2024, spring 2025) and a graduate (masters-level) seminar on The Politics of Health Policy. I will additionally be teaching an advanced undergraduate seminar on Administrative Burden and Inequality in U.S. Health Care. Other courses in my wheelhouse: Health Law and Politics, Health Policy Diffusion Across the 50 States.
- Some assignments I give my students (apart from exams, research papers, and policy analyses): Memo designing one's own health care system, proposing 3-4 reforms that address affordability, spending, equity, and/or quality considerations. Write a comment on a health agency rule that incorporates systematic research findings. Write a paper discussing an example of policy feedback in health policy. Write an op-ed that highlights an administrative burden in a program that is being proposed or implemented in this state, and proposing a reform to mitigate this problem.
Wheaton College (2022-2024)
- Instructor for undergraduate lectures on Introduction to American Politics and Introduction to Research Methods in Political Science (covering conceptualization and measurement, research design, observational and experimental research, descriptive statistics, tests of significance, and linear regression)
- Instructor for undergraduate seminars on Judicial Politics, Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers, and Constitutional Law: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
Oberlin College (2021-2022):
- Instructor for undergraduate lecture courses on Introduction to Public Policy Analysis, Law and Public Policy, Constitutional Law: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers.
- Instructor for upper division seminar on Health Law and Politics, which addresses Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, reproductive health, and the politics of pandemics. The course culminates in students writing original health policy reports.
Tufts University (2018-19):
- Instructor for undergraduate lecture courses on Congress, Bureaucracy, and Public Policy, Law and Public Policy, and Constitutional Law.
Yale University (2016-17):
- Co-taught an Introduction to Statistics course, in which I taught my students such topics as polling methodology, regression analysis, and introductions to experiments and natural experiments.
- Instructor for graduate seminar on American Political Institutions (covering such topics as Congress, the presidency, bureaucracy, judicial politics, and interest groups)
- Instructor for undergraduate lecture on Courts, Media, and Politics (covering such topics as judicial ideology, judicial bargaining and opinion assignment, the role of judicial precedent, courts in the separation-of-powers system, and media coverage of the Court).
Washington University in St. Louis (2015-16):
- Instructor for upper division seminar on Politics in Bureaucracies, in which we addressed such topics as the civil service, the influence of interest groups on bureaucratic policymaking, the politics of bureaucratic appointments, rulemaking, and judicial review of agencies.