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
American Politics, Democracy, and Representation
- Introduction to American Politics
- Race and Ethnic Politics
- Latino Politics
- Democracy, Race, and the American Political Order
- Democratic Backsliding
- Political Behavior
Elections, Voting Rights, and Political Institutions
- Redistricting, Representation, and Democracy
- Voting Rights and Election Law
- Electoral Institutions and Democratic Representation
- Electoral Reform and Institutional Design
Research Design and Political Inquiry
- Research Design
- Survey Research
- Qualitative and Mixed-Method Approaches to Political Inquiry