Teaching

Intro. to Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (Universidad del Rosario)
A required undergraduate course teaching basic concepts of quantitative analysis (descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, and linear regression) using Excel and RStudio.

Area Studies: North America (Universidad del Rosario)
An interactive, discussion-based course reviewing important political and social debates in the United States and Canada, including federalism, racial inequality, incarceration, immigration, religious freedom, gender, etc.

Area Studies: Sub-Saharan Africa (Universidad del Rosario)
A course introducing students to job skills in the development field (open source intelligence research, policy design, fundraising, diplomacy, risk assessment, geographic information systems, and data management) within a contemporary African context.

Research Seminar (Universidad del Rosario)
A senior research seminar that guides students through applying quantitative and qualitative social science methods to design research projects or other products.

Directed Studies in Intelligence: Analysis of the Crime-Terror Nexus (Texas A&M)
A directed studies course on criminal organizations and terrorist networks, particularly in Latin America.

Quantitative Methods I (National Security and Diplomacy Track) (Texas A&M)
A required MA-level course for professional students on quantitative methods for security analysis (using Excel and Stata).

Religion and Politics (Texas A&M)
A reading-intensive weekly seminar in which students take turns leading discussions on academic books around politics and religion.

Methods I for Security and Foreign Policy (Texas A&M)
An introduction to the social science process and both qualitative and quantitative methods in security studies and foreign policy, using Excel and XLSTAT.

Contemporary Civil Wars (Texas A&M)
A course analyzing causes, processes, and consequences of civil conflict from an academic perspective.

Transnational Security Issues (Texas A&M)
A course on transnational threats to security, including organized crime, trafficking, migration, piracy, cyber security, pandemics, and environmental disasters.

Approaches to International Security (Yale University)
Teaching fellow and grader for Dr. Matthew Kocher in an undergraduate seminar on war, peace, and political conflict.

    Civil Wars and Ethnic Violence (Brigham Young University)
    Adjunct professor for a course on the causes, process, and consequences of internal political conflicts and violence.

    Advanced Quantitative Political Methodology (Brigham Young University)
    Teaching assistant for Dr. Jay Goodliffe, directing STATA laboratory sessions on advanced regression (binary dependent variables, panel data, instrumental variables, etc.).