teaching

My teaching interests include public policy, the mass media, agenda-setting,  American political institutions, political communication, and research methods.

Teaching Experience at University of Kentucky:

Instructor

  • The Policy Process

  • Policy Analysis

  • Policy Process and Implementation

  • Political Context of Public Policy

Student Research Mentor/Advising

    • PhD Committee: Zafar Iqbal; Sarah Smith (2022); Sherelle Pierre (current, Political Science); Sarah Saulsbury (current, Political Science)

    • Masters Capstone Projects: Sarah Nolan (2019); Paul Anthony Allen (2020); Aja Croteau (2020); Rob Fenton (2021), Jillian Chamberlain (2022).

    • Masters Intern Advisor: Ishara Nanayakkara (2022); Michael Hatfield (2021).

    • Undergraduate Research: Emma Regens (UK), Averie Turner (UK); Mariah Kendall (UK); Zoe

      Moore (Library of Congress); Tyler Van Patten (LOC), Sophia Copeland (LOC).

    • Undergraduate Honors Course Advisor: Anamei Walli.

Teaching Experience at University of Texas at Austin:

Guest Instructor

  • U.S. Congress

  • Food and Politics

  • The U.S. Congress (graduate seminar)

Teaching Assistant

  • Research on the U.S. Congress (2014-2017)

    • Professors: Bryan Jones and Sean Theriault

  • Intro to American Government (2014)

    • Professor: John McIver

  • Congress (2013)

    • Professor: Sean Theriault

  • American Government (2011

    • Professor: Jim Sheffield (U. of Oklahoma)

Undergraduate Research Mentor

  • 2016-2017:

    • Lexi Darrow, “Effect of Election Season the Content and Behavior of Senator’s Twitter Accounts”

    • Brenna Wurm, “Gender Partisanship: Differences in Senatorial Twitter Behavior”

  • 2015-2016

    • Brenna Larkin, “Through A Singular Lense: How Media Coverage Affects Public Opinion of Foreign Policy”

    • Catherine Blair, “Does Saturday Night Live Have a Political Bias?”

  • 2014-2015

    • Samuel Deleon, “Childhood Obesity and the National School Lunch Program”

  • 2013-2014

    • Andrew Gray, “Intelligence of Congressmen and Their Educational Background”