At UC Davis, I teach upper-division undergraduate courses in policy agenda-setting, the presidency, and media and politics. I also teach graduate courses in research design, framing, and presidential rhetoric. Some of my past syllabi are below.

Before coming to Davis, I taught American Government as a graduate student at Penn State University as part of the LEAP interdisciplinary program (receiving the Robert S. Friedman Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Penn State Department of Political Science). 

I also had the good fortune to serve as a teaching assistant for the Summer Institute in Political Psychology at Stanford University in 2007. 

And way back before entering graduate school, I spent two years teaching mathematics in evening courses at the Santa Fe Indian School, followed by three years as a mathematics (and theatre) teacher at The Native American Preparatory School in Rowe, New Mexico.

In my classes I strive, ever optimistically, to maintain the emphasis on critical thinking and other quirky approaches I experienced as an undergraduate at St. John's College (“Great Books, No Gym”).

Past Courses:
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Undergraduate Policy Agenda-Setting Course:
Winter 2017 Syllabus

Undergraduate Presidency Course:
Summer 2016 Syllabus 

Undergraduate Media & Politics Course:
Fall 2016 Syllabus

Graduate Research Design Seminar:
Part I Winter 2014 Syllabus
Part II Spring 2014 Syllabus

Graduate Issue Framing Seminar:
Winter 2016 Syllabus

Graduate Presidential Rhetoric Seminar:
Winter 2015 Syllabus