I believe that teaching sociology presents a unique opportunity to help students reflect on their lives and their personal interests from a totally new perspective. As such, I try to make my teaching accessible and relatable, and to draw on a diverse set of sources to acquaint students with both important theoretical concepts and hard skills like analyzing data and writing like an academic. 

Instructor, Princeton University Department of Sociology Methods Camp, 2019-2020

As a student instructor for Methods Camp, I helped prepare incoming PhD students for the year-long departmental math sequence. In 2019 I was the student math instructor under Dr. Matt Salganik, and taught students derivatives and integrals, matrix algebra, and the basic principles of optimization. In 2020 I was the student coding instructor under Dr. Brandon Stewart, and taught students the basics of R coding. The 2020 instruction was entirely digital due to the COVID-19 pandemic. My leectures and coding demonstrations, which were built on foundations laid by Dr. Stewart, Dr. Salganik, and past student instructors, are available on request.

SOC 300: Claims and Evidence in Sociology, Princeton University, Fall 2019 and Fall 2020 (Preceptor for Drs. Jen Jennings and Kathy Edin)

Claims and Evidence is Princeton's required methods course for undergraduate sociology concentrators. In precepting for the course I reviewed quantitative and qualitative sociological methods with students in a small-group setting. Students practiced skills like survey development and qualitative coding through hands-on activities and learned to write academic papers by through close reading and interactive analysis of existing sociological research. Throughout the course of the class, students developed their own academic research project for their Junior Projects. I worked one-on-one with each of a small group of students to help them develop research questions, review existing research on their topic, and design an appropriate methodology for primary data collection. This course was taught entirely online during the Fall 2020 semester.

SOC 215: Sociology of the Internet, Princeton University, Spring 2020 (Preceptor for Dr. Janet Vertesi)

Sociology of the Internet used sociological research on the internet and students' own experiences with social media and digital life to teach students sociological theory. Students in this class came from a variety of non-sociological backgrounds. I worked with a small group of students to review theoretical concepts and practice analyzing internet realities through a theoretical lense. This course transitioned online at the halfway point due to the COVID-19 pandemic, requiring a quick transition in teaching methods. However, this transition was used to give students an opportunity to analyze their contemporay experiences through the lens of sociology- an opportunity which helped many make sense of the transition in new ways.