​J.J. "Jake" Pickle Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program

In my capacity as the Director of Undergraduate Research for the Policy Agendas Project, I co-direct the J.J. "Jake" Pickle Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program. Through this program, I teach a year-long undergraduate course on American government and politics research. I lecture on research methodology and the presentation of research, as well as guide students (the J.J. Pickle Fellows) through the development of rigorous, independent research projects. Students also work as research assistants for the U.S. Agendas Project - I train them on the coding scheme and manage their collection and coding of Project data.

​My lecture slides and coding training materials can be found here. I am happy to supply the answer keys to coding training documents upon request.

2018 J.J. Pickle Fellows visit the Office of the Legislative Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives, in Washington, D.C.

2018 J.J. Pickle Fellows present their work at UT Austin's annual Longhorn Research Poster Session.

Teaching Assistant

I have also been fortunate to serve as a Teaching Assistant for a number of courses on American politics and policy. Details are listed below.

• ​Corporate Political Strategy, Spring 2017 and Spring 2018. Syllabus available here.
• American Public Policy, Spring 2015. Syllabus available here.
• Campaigns and Elections, Fall 2014. Syllabus available here.