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University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Gender and Politics (Spring 2024)

Course Overview: This course will provide an overview of the descriptive, representative, and symbolic incorporation of gender in politics. The course will explore a theoretical, as well as practical and thematic examination of the relevance of the concepts of gender to understanding politics. We will thematically cover definitions, conceptualizations, and measurements of gender in politics, challenge traditional views of gender and how we understand the role of gender in different political spaces and analyze contemporary and practical approaches to gender issues. As instructor for this class, I will run two classes a week, where I will give short lectures on the course material and hold discussions based on the readings. Students will be expected to complete a creative final project of their choosing, such as a research paper, public commentary, or oral presentation that builds on a series of writing assignments.

Introduction to Comparative Politics (Fall 2023)

Course Overview: This is an introductory course in comparative politics, where we will cover key topics such as state formation, conflict, democratization, and regimes and regime transitions. In addition, students will be introduced to academic and non-academic texts concerning these topics from various countries across the world. As instructor for this class, I will run two classes a week, where I will give short lectures on the course material and hold discussions based on the readings. Students will write several short assignments as well as a research paper, written in six stages. My instruction will focus on supporting students as they develop a research question and thesis, construct cohesive and well-structured arguments, and evaluate evidence.

Cornell University

Spanish Foreign Language Across the Curriculum Topic: Latin America and the Modern World (Spring 2021)

Course Overview: This course was designed to complement material from the history course, Latin America and the Modern World. The objective of the course was for students to learn to interact with diverse language speakers and learn the conventions of the academic discourse, both oral and written, in the target language. As instructor for this class, I ran one class a week, where I gave short lectures on the history course material and held discussions on the readings. The rest of the course was focused primarily on teaching students to speak and read in Spanish, exposing them to a range of different types of writing in Spanish, such as academic research papers, policy briefs, op-eds, poetry, music, and journalistic writing. Students completed a creative final project of their choosing, such as a learning portfolio, oral presentation, project proposal, position paper, reading reflection or critique.

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Teaching Assistant

Cornell University

Comparative Latin American Politics (Spring 2020) (Instructor Kenneth Roberts)

America Confronts the World (Fall 2019) (Instructor: Peter J. Katzenstein)