Miranda Yaver, PhD
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I have had the pleasure of teaching a range of courses in American politics, lawmaking, and research methods: 

2013-14, Columbia University: Preceptor for Columbia's senior honors seminar, in which the students from across political science subfields work to produce senior theses containing original research and often original data collection. The syllabus for the course can be found here. 

Summer 2014, Columbia University: Instructor for upper division undergraduate course on Law and Public Policy, in which we addressed the following dimensions of law and their policy consequences: constitutional law, statutory law, administrative law, and direct democracy.

Fall 2015, Washington University in St. Louis: Instructor for upper division undergraduate seminar on Politics in Bureaucracies, in which we addressed such topics as the civil service, the influence of interest groups, the politics of bureaucratic appointments, rulemaking, and judicial review of agencies.

Fall 2016, Yale University: 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. 

Spring 2017, Yale University: Instructor for graduate seminar on American Political Institutions (covering such topics as Congress, the presidency, bureaucracy, judicial politics, and interest groups) and 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). 

 Summer 2017 and 2018, Columbia University Summer Program for High School Students: Instructor for course on Constitutional Law, covering such topics as religious liberty, speech, privacy, equal protection, and commerce.

In the fall 2018-19 academic year, I am a Lecturer in Political Science at Tufts University, teaching Congress, Bureaucracy, and Public Policy (fall 2018), Law and Public Policy (spring 2019), and Constitutional Law (spring 2019).

Some courses in my wheelhouse: Law and Public Policy, The Politics of Policymaking, Constitutional Law, Introduction to American Politics, Congress, The American Legal System, Executive Branch Politics,  Judicial Politics, Environmental Politics, and The Politics of Health Care.