Teaching
As instructor at undergraduate level:
Power, Identity, and Resistance I and II (Winter 2017 ; Autumn 2018)
First two courses in a required three course sequence for entering undergraduates at the University of Chicago. Through close reading and dissection of classic social science texts, we develop students' sense of what it means to develop a rigorous theory of social behavior. Authors include the likes of Smith, Marx, Hobbes, Rousseau, and Foucault.
Social Networks and Social Capital (Winter 2018; syllabus)
As a theoretical enterprise, social network analysis focuses on the inherent interdependence of actors and treats relationships between them as the building blocks for large-scale social structures. This course covers core concepts and findings in the field with empirical examples from diverse areas of social life including adolescent cliques, gang homicides, scientific discourse, and online dating. Towards the end, we devote special attention to applications in the study of inequality, politics, and the Internet to consider and interrogate the utility of network ideas for answering specific substantive questions.
I have also served as a teaching assistant for courses on introductory social statistics (undergraduate/graduate), hierarchical linear models (undergraduate/graduate), and introductory social theory (undergraduate).