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

Sample Syllabi

Democracy, Race, and the American Political Order

Upper-division undergraduate / graduate seminar
A seminar on democratic theory, measurement, and exclusion.

Computational Methods for Social Science Research

 Graduate seminar / workshop
A seminar on nonparametric modeling and interpretable machine learning for social science research.