I am an award-winning instructor with years of experience teaching research methods to students from diverse backgrounds at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. This includes experience teaching both in-person and online courses.
At the graduate level, from 2019 to 2022 I served as the teaching assistant for the required social research methods sequence for first-year sociology PhD students. This class is not only the entry point into the program, but also serves as an introduction to professional-level sociological research for many students. A such, my role was both as an instructor offering personalized feedback on students’ work and as a peer mentor helping them integrate into the program and the university as a whole.
At the undergraduate level, I taught the required social research methods course in the Summers of 2021 and 2022. For many students, this course was their first experience engaging in the social science research process. In addition to teaching important research concepts, I worked with students to develop an original research proposal based on their own interests — guiding them through the steps of developing a research question, conducting a literature review, and designing appropriate methods to help answer their question. Because students picked their own projects in this course, they engaged with sociological literature and research techniques that were the most interesting to them, which helped them learn important concepts about research and the field as a whole. A sample syllabus for this course is available here. Note that the specific readings are subject to change, as I try to incorporate recent research into the syllabus as example articles.