Teaching

Teaching is one of the most rewarding parts of my work as an economist. As a Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at Illinois Wesleyan University, I teach a 4:4 load across economics, finance, and business statistics. I view teaching as a serious responsibility: maintaining high expectations while giving students the tools and support they need to meet them.

I emphasize economic intuition, quantitative reasoning, and connections between course material and the world students encounter outside the classroom. In macroeconomics especially, I want students to be able to move between economic models, data, current events, and policy questions rather than treating them as separate subjects. I use active learning, applied data, classroom experiments, and structured problem solving where they improve understanding, and I place a high value on knowing and mentoring my students individually.

Teaching Experience

Illinois Wesleyan University

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, 2026–Present

• Fall 2026: Introduction to Economics

• Fall 2026: Business Statistics

• Spring 2026: Intermediate Macroeconomics

• Spring 2026: International Finance

West Virginia University

Instructor of Record

• Intermediate Macroeconomics, Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Spring 2026

• Financial Markets & Institutions, Fall 2024, two sections

• Principles of Macroeconomics, Spring 2024

• Principles of Macroeconomics, Summer 2023

Graduate Teaching Assistant

• Lead TA, Principles of Macroeconomics, Fall 2023, two large sections

• Advanced Macroeconomics II, Ph.D., Spring 2023

• Advanced Macroeconomics I, Ph.D., Fall 2022

• Principles of Macroeconomics, 2021–22

Courses I Can Teach

Courses Taught

Macroeconomics and Finance

• Principles of Macroeconomics

• Intermediate Macroeconomics

• Financial Markets and Institutions

• International Finance

Economics and Quantitative Methods

• Introduction to Economics

• Business Statistics

Courses I am Prepared to Teach

• Economic Growth

• Monetary Economics / Money and Banking

• Advanced Macroeconomics

• Urban Economics

• Housing Economics

• Econometrics

• Principles of Microeconomics

Of course, I am open to teaching other courses as needed.

• Mentor students regarding coursework, career planning, graduate and professional school, and other academic opportunities

• Write letters of recommendation and provide individualized advising to students pursuing graduate and professional education