Teaching

Teaching

I teach students statistical reasoning so they can evaluate claims that people make about politics and the world. I also co-direct a foreign studies program (FSP) designed to increase intercultural experiences and promote positive intergroup contact.

Dartmouth

Statistical reasoning

I primarily teach two classes at Dartmouth: Quantitative Political Analysis and Experiments in Politics. In Quantitative Political Analysis, I teach students the basics of computational social science, with their work culminating in a quantitative-focused research paper. In Experiments in Politics, I teach students how to design, implement, analyze, and write up the results from an experiment. I work with students to do this throughout the term, intending to publish the paper after the quarter ends. I’ve published two papers with students using this approach so far.
My top-line evaluations (mean) for these classes are provided below. At Dartmouth, scores closer to 1 indicate better evaluations; I’ve reverse-coded my scores for interpretability.
 
Dartmouth teaching evaluations
Name
Quarter
Year
Course quality
Teaching effectiveness
Winter
2023
4.54/5
4.75/5
Winter
2023
4.67/5
4.75/5
Fall
2022
4.71/5
4.67/5
Winter
2021
4.82/5
4.91/5
Spring
2021
4.54/5
4.75/5

Intercultural experiences

In line with some of my work on discrimination, I generally believe that intergroup contact can reduce negative biases. For this and other reasons, I’m a strong advocate for students pursuing intercultural experiences.
To encourage this, I co-founded and currently co-direct Dartmouth’s Baltic LEAP (language, energy, and politics) foreign studies program (FSP), where I teach Baltic Politics, a survey course of important themes in comparative politics with a focus on the region. The course incorporates local voices, featuring guest lectures from nearby academics, diplomatic staff (including ambassadors), journalists, and policy professionals.
While there are no course evaluations for Baltic Politics, since Dartmouth does not administer them for courses that are part of FSPs, students have provided extensive positive feedback about the overall program. They have called it “truly life changing!,” “by far the most unique experience you will have,” and “honestly … one of the best experiences of my life.”
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With Dartmouth students in Estonia.
With Dartmouth students in Estonia.
 
With Dartmouth students in an oil shale mine.
With Dartmouth students in an oil shale mine.
In a survey conducted 3 months after the inaugural FSP, students indicated their participation in the program (1) influenced their understanding of their own cultural identity and biases, (2) made them take a more global view of things, and (3) helped them better connect with different types of people.

Other colleges and universities

I've been fortunate to teach various courses and workshops about experiments and measurement to a range of students across universities and levels. For example, at the graduate student level, I’ve taught multiple workshops on experiments at Waseda University. I’ve also co-taught two classes on Computational Text Analysis for Legal Practice at the University of Virginia School of Law with Kevin Cope.
In addition, I've taught many short, informal methods workshops at universities in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The workshops that I've taught in Asia have been attended by hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and local bureaucrats and government officials. According to the surveys I’ve administered at the end of these workshops, attendees have found them very helpful, with 80% indicating that they were more helpful than other similar workshops.👇
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Workshop evaluations

Student song recommendations

In every syllabus, I ask students to share their favorite songs. Here are their picks.
Research by core area
Name
Journal
Tags
Year
PS: Political Science & Politics
Japanese politics
methods
scientific community
Forthcoming
American Journal of Comparative Law
conflict
American politics
Japanese politics
experiments
Forthcoming
Political Behavior
American politics
experiments
Forthcoming
Journal of Japanese Political Science
Japanese politics
experiments
Forthcoming
Political Research Quarterly
intergroup relations
conflict
American politics
experiments
Forthcoming
Politics, Groups, and Identities
intergroup relations
experiments
American politics
Forthcoming
Frontiers of Sociology
methods
experiments
intergroup relations
Forthcoming
Politics and the Life Sciences
intergroup relations
American politics
2023
Nature Scientific Data
Japanese politics
American politics
2023
Socius
Japanese politics
American politics
conflict
2023
Sociological Science
intergroup relations
American politics
methods
experiments
2023
Journal of Legal Studies
intergroup relations
American politics
methods
experiments
2023
Nature Scientific Data
methods
experiments
intergroup relations
2023
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
intergroup relations
methods
American politics
experiments
2022
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
intergroup relations
methods
American politics
experiments
2022
PS: Political Science & Politics
Japanese politics
methods
scientific community
2022
Journal of Experimental Political Science
American politics
intergroup relations
experiments
2022
Nature Human Behavior
intergroup relations
American politics
experiments
2022
Nature Communications
American politics
Japanese politics
2022
Political Behavior
methods
experiments
2022
Socius
Japanese politics
intergroup relations
2021
Political Studies Review
methods
intergroup relations
experiments
ethics
2021
Journal of Conflict Resolution
conflict
2021
Journal of Politics
Japanese politics
conflict
experiments
2021
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
intergroup relations
experiments
2020
Journal of Comparative Economics
intergroup relations
experiments
2020
Political Science Research and Methods
conflict
methods
2020
Journal of Experimental Political Science
intergroup relations
American politics
experiments
2019
American Journal of Political Science
intergroup relations
American politics
2019
Political Science
intergroup relations
experiments
2019
Journal of Conflict Resolution
conflict
2019
State Politics & Policy Quarterly
American politics
experiments
2019
Law and Contemporary Problems
conflict
2018
Socius
intergroup relations
American politics
methods
2018
Sociological Science
methods
intergroup relations
experiments
American politics
2018
Political Research Quarterly
intergroup relations
American politics
experiments
2018
PS: Political Science & Politics
conflict
American politics
2018
Journal of Experimental Political Science
intergroup relations
American politics
methods
experiments
2017
British Journal of Political Science
2017
PS: Political Science & Politics
American politics
conflict
2017
Sociological Science
methods
experiments
2016