Teaching

Courses

• Comparative Politics in Developing Nations (PS 241)

  • Fall 2017

• Politics in International Development (PS 340)

  • Spring 2018

• Government and Politics of Southeast Asia (PS 345)

  • Fall 2022

• Senior Honors Seminar (PS 495)

  • Fall 2022

• Research Design and Analysis in Quantitative Research (PS 522 - Graduate Seminar - co-taught with Prof. Jim Kuklinski)

  • Spring 2019

• Proseminar in Comparative Politics II: Comparative Politics of Developing Countries (PS 541 - Graduate Seminar)

  • Spring 2012

• Topics in Comparative Politics: Comparative Political Economy (PS 549 - Graduate Seminar)

  • Fall 2018

• Topics in Comparative Politics: Corruption (PS 549 - Graduate Seminar) 

  • Fall 2017

• Topics in Comparative Politics: Governance and Accountability (PS 549 - Graduate Seminar)

  • Spring 2022

• Topics in International Relations: Foreign Aid (PS 589 - Graduate Seminar)

  • Fall 2014

• iTV / Poli Sci U Course on Survey Experiments (PS590 - Online, Eight-Week Graduate Seminar)

  • Spring 2023

• Dissertation Design (PS 598)

  • Spring 2023

• Short Course on Survey Experiments in Political Science (Universidade de Sao Paulo)

  • August 2013

• Introduction to International Relations (Columbia University) 

  • Summer 2007

Completed Dissertation Committees

• Sarah Leffingwell (Booze Allen Hamilton) -- New Democracies and Multilateral Agreements: Exploring the Effects of Regime Legitimacy on International Behavior -- 2023

• Miles Williams (Visiting Assistant Professor, Denison University) -- International Aid and Strategic Interdependence: How Common and Conflicting Foreign Policy Goals Shape the Supply of Foreign Aid -- 2022 -- Chair

• Yuan-Ning Chu (Apple) -- Socialization and National Identity in East Asia -- 2022

• Luzmarina Garcia (Assistant Professor, Florida Atlantic University) -- How Women Rule: Judicial Empathy and Administrative Court Rulings -- 2022

• Sanghoon Kim-Leffingwell (Lecturer, Data Analytics and Policy Program, Johns Hopkins University) -- Voting for Nostalgia?: Authoritarian Nostalgia, Social Identity, and Political Behavior in Post-Authoritarian Democracies -- 2022 -- Chair

• Gustavo Diaz (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Inter-American Policy and Research, Tulane University) -- Revealed Corruption and Electoral Accountability in Brazil: How Politicians Anticipate Voting Behavior -- 2021

• Wei Zhong (Post-Doctoral Research Scientist, Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics, George Washington University) -- Candidates, the Economy and Voting Behavior -- 2020 

• Alice Iannantuoni (Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Geneva) -- Essays on Foreign Aid Volatility -- 2020 -- Chair

• Luke Plutowski (Statistician, Latin American Public Opinion Project, Vanderbilt University) -- Quid-Pro-Quo or No? Targeted Electoral Distribution in Brazil -- 2020 -- Chair

• Peter J. Chereson -- The Revolution Will be Made Public: The Effects of International Actors on Protest Movements in Hybrid and Authoritarian Regimes Today -- 2019

• Kyle W. Estes (Visiting Assistant Professor, Occidental College) --  Post-Soviet Ethnic Politics and Public Goods Provision -- 2019

• Amanda Burke (California Department of Justice) -- Thinking Outside the Box: Extra-Parliamentary Strategies and Their Effects on the Development of Good Governance in New Democracies -- 2019

• Amanda Cronkhite (Assistant Professor, U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies) -- The Medium Matters: Political Communication and Behavior in Latin America -- 2018

• Kelly Senters Piazza (Assistant Professor, U.S. Air Force Academy) -- Is Smaller Better? An Assessment of the Causes and Consequences of Subnational Fragmentation in Brazil -- 2017 -- Co-Chair

• Wenshuo Zhang (Data Scientist, Apple) -- The Political Implications of Bilingual Cognition -- 2017

• Ashlea Rundlett (Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Rhode Island) -- The Effects of Revealed Corruption on Voter Attitudes and Participation: Evidence from Brazil -- 2017 -- Chair

• Matthew Cawvey (Assistant Professor, Erskine College) -- Personality and the Political System: An Exploration of the Psychological Roots of Political Support -- 2017

• Blair Niece (Assistant Dean, U.S. Military Academy) -- Partial Diffusion and Backsliding in International Relations -- 2017

• Evangeline Mae Reynolds (Assistant Professor, U.S. Military Academy) -- Supranational Law and Compliance -- 2016

• Gina M. Martinez (Program Associate, Resource Development Associates) -- Unraveling Red Tape: Foreign Aid Allocation and the Domestic Bureaucracy -- 2015

• Cristina ­Alvarez Mingote (Associate Director, Center for Social and Behavioral Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) -- International Migration, Electoral Strategies and Home Country Elections -- 2014

• Andrea Kent (Department of Social Science and Public Administration, West Virginia University Institute of Technology) -- Putting the Winner-Loser Effect in Context: Presidentialism & Democracy in the Americas -- 2013

• Diego Correa (Visiting Professor, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil) -- The Effects of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs on Latin American Presidential Elections -- 2012

• Carie Steele (Department of Politics and International Affairs, Northern Arizona University) -- Disease Control and Donor Priorities: The Political Economy of Development Aid for Health -- 2011

• Jennifer Romine -- International Linkages and Multilateral Lending in the Post-Communist Region -- 2011