Research & Teaching Interests

Corruption and Development; Governance, Accountability, and Reform; Comparative Public Policy; Comparative Politics; Research Methods/Quantitative Methods; Conceptualization and Measurement; Building State Capabilities; and Public Sector Reform for Private Sector Development.

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor, Davidson College

  • POL 140 Comparative Global Politics (Fall 2018, Spring 2019)
  • POL 201 Methods and Statistics (Fall 2018, Fall 2019)
  • POL 445 Corruption and Development (Spring 2019, Fall 2019)
  • POL 259 Governance, Corruption and Reform (Fall 2019)

Instructor of Record, McGill University

  • INTD 497 Research Seminar in International Development: Corruption and Development (Winter 2017)

Graduate Level – Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin

  • Statistical Analysis I (Fall 2009)

Undergraduate – Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin

  • The U.S. in Comparative Perspective (Fall 2008)
  • International Politics of Latin America (Spring 2010)
  • Research Methods in Government (Fall 2010)
  • Law and Social Change in Comparative Perspective (Spring 2009)
  • American Government (Summer 2009)
  • U.S.- Russian Relations (Spring 2013)