Teaching Philosophy
My teaching helps students ask better questions, evaluate evidence, and build arguments that hold up under scrutiny. Across my courses, I emphasize political analysis as a set of durable skills: defining concepts clearly, weighing evidence, connecting institutions to behavior, and communicating arguments with precision.
Teaching Experience
Instructor of Record, University of Notre Dame
- Empowering Change: Latino Leadership and Professional Growth, Summer 2024
- Applied Leadership: Theory and Practice, Summer 2025
Teaching evaluations
As instructor of record for two original courses, I earned composite scores of 5.0/5.0, with every student rating the courses excellent or very good.
Courses Prepared to Teach
Introduction to American Politics
- Race and Ethnic Politics
- Latino Politics
- Democracy, Race, and the American Political Order
- Democratic Backsliding
- Electoral Reform and Institutional Design
Political Behavior and Research Design
- Political Behavior
- Research Design
- Survey Research
- Applied Quantitative Methods for Political Science
- Computational Methods for Social Science Research