Teaching

I am currently an Adjunct Instructor for the Columbia University School of Professional Studies’ Pre-College Programs, where I teach courses on economics and labor studies for high school students.

I strongly believe that economics education has an important role to play in promoting the common good of society. To that end, I am especially interested in developing innovative pedagogical strategies that are engaging, empirically motivated, and responsive to the real-world problems that initially draw many students to the field, such as inequality, climate change, and the future of work.

It was for those reasons that I was delighted to be selected as a 2019 CORE-Teagle Fellow by Curriculum Open-Access Resources in Economics USA (CORE-USA).

At the end of the 2019-2020 academic year, I was named runner-up for the Columbia University Department of Economics’ annual Wueller Teaching Award for best graduate teaching assistant in a core undergraduate class.

Below is a summary of my teaching experience at Columbia, both before and after earning my Ph.D.:

Courses for which I served as instructor

  • The Economics of Labor Relations: Unions and Management (Pre-college) · Summer 2024, Session C (evaluations) (syllabus)

  • Introduction to Business, Finance, and Economics (Pre-college) · Summer 2023, Session A (evaluations) (syllabus); Summer 2023, Session C (evaluations) (syllabus); Summer 2024, Session A (evaluations) (syllabus)

  • Introduction to Labor Studies (Pre-college) · Summer 2022 (evaluations) (syllabus) (materials)

  • Public Economics (Undergraduate) · Summer 2018 (evaluations) (syllabus) (materials)

Course for which I served as junior instructor

  • Introduction to Business, Finance, and Economics (Pre-college) · Instructor: Raheem Haji · Summer 2021 (evaluations) (syllabus)

Courses for which I served as teaching assistant

  • Intermediate Microeconomics (Undergraduate) · Instructor: Wouter Vergote · Spring 2018 (evaluations), Fall 2018 (evaluations), Fall 2019 (evaluations), Spring 2021 (evaluations)

  • Public Economics (Undergraduate) · Instructor: Bozidar Plavsic · Summer 2019

  • Perspectives on Economic Studies (Doctoral) · Instructors: Prof. Suresh Naidu & Prof. Joseph Stiglitz · Spring 2019 (evaluations) (materials)

  • The American Economy (Undergraduate) · Instructor: Claudia Halbac · Fall 2017 (evaluations)

  • Intermediate Macroeconomics (Undergraduate) · Instructor: Sandesh Dhungana · Summer 2017

  • Principles of Economics (Undergraduate) · Instructor: Sunil Gulati · Spring 2017 (evaluations)

  • Principles of Economics (Undergraduate) · Instructor: Prof. Prajit Dutta · Fall 2016 (evaluations)