I teach both undergraduate and graduate classes at Vanderbilt. Central to my teaching is my steadfast belief that it is essential that more people understand how data is used (and misused) to make theoretical claims about why something is happening and what it means. I strive to empower my students to be better consumers and producers of data-driven analyses and theoretical claims about the world -- and especially in terms of elections, public opinion, and the actions of political elites.
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Here are some public-facing lectures and writings where I try to put these principles into practice:
This was a lecture I gave at The Hermitage on April 10, 2024 and which was recorded and subsequently broadcast on CSPAN.
Here are a series of lectures I recorded for the 2020 version of the U.S. Elections Class. Lectures include: "The Electoral College", "Election Administration in the U.S.", "What Happened in 2016 with the Polls?", "A History of Pre-Election Polling in the US", and "Ideas and Issues in Public Opinion Polling" (Part 2).