Teaching Experience

I teach in the Department of Politics at Bates College and contribute cross-listed courses to the programs of Latin American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies. I taught for ten semesters as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Political Science at the University of Kansas (KU).

At Bates College, I currently teach Gender, Power, and Politics, an introductory course on comparative gender politics, and Participatory Democracy in the Americas, an upper division seminar with a research design component. In the winter, I offer Social Movements in Latin America, an intermediate and interdisciplinary course, and Experiences in the Policy Process, an upper division community-engaged learning course on public policy. In the past, I have taught Government and Politics in Global Perspective, Politics of Latin America, The Death of Democracy?, and Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Brazil.

In May 2018, I led a group of 12 students on an off-campus course Brazil in Watercolor: Sexuality Politics in the Tropics. We explored LGBT politics and policy in Salvador da Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo. See more about it on our blog!

I also advise five senior theses per year.

At the University of Kansas, as Instructor of Record, I designed and taught original courses on Contemporary US Social Movements, Women & Politics, and Introduction to Public Policy. As a Graduate Teaching Assistant, I worked with faculty and guided discussion sections for Introduction to Comparative Politics, Introduction to International Politics, and Introduction to Political Theory.

For more on my teaching philosophy, please click here.

Department of Politics, Bates College

First Year Seminars

The Death of Democracy? [FYS483]

Introductory Courses

Government and Politics in Comparative Perspective [PLTC122]

Gender, Power, & Politics [GSPT155]

Intermediate Courses

Politics of Latin America [LSPT249]

Social Movements in Latin America [GSPT219]

Upper-division Seminars

Experiences in the Policy Process [PLTC377]

Participatory Democracy [LSPT352]

Short Term Courses (5 week "May term")

Brazil in Watercolor: Sexuality Politics in the Tropics (Short Term Off-Campus) [INDS s33]

Politics of Race, Gender, & Sexuality in Brazil [INDS s20]

Department of Political Science, University of Kansas

Graduate Teaching Assistant (Instructor of Record)

Contemporary US Social Movements

Women & Politics

Introduction to Public Policy

Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA)

Introduction to Comparative Politics

Introduction to International Politics

Introduction to Political Theory

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