Teaching

Doctoral Dissertations

• • Chair, Dr. Tanushree Bhan. McCormack Graduate School. “Potty Politics: Sanitation Policymaking for the Poor in Delhi” Defended Spring 2020.

  • Committee, Dr. Marcia Mundt. McCormack Graduate School. “The Impacts of Participatory Deliberative Democracy on Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in Central America.” Defended Spring 2020.

  • Committee, Dr. Hsin-Ching Wu. McCormack Graduate School. “The Role of Massachusetts Cultural Council in State Cultural Policy.” Defended Spring 2020.  

  • Committee, Dr. Katalina Berriochoa. McCormack Graduate School. “Places, Preferences, and Policy: An Analysis of Funding Education Along the Urban-Rural Divide.” Defended October 2019.

  • Committee, Jason Wright. McCormack Graduate School. “Intersectionality, Class, and Substantive Representation in State Legislatures.” Proposal Defended May 2019.

  • Co-Chair, Dr. Marija Bingulac. McCormack Graduate School. “Understanding Romani Deprivation in Serbia: From Symbolic Inclusion Prescriptions to Meaningful Pathways to Economic Integration.” Defended Spring 2017.

  • Committee, Diana Salas Coronado. McCormack Graduate School. “Gender and State-Level Immigrant Policymaking.” Successful Proposal Defense. Fall 2014. 

  • Committee, Dr. Carolyn Arcand.  McCormack Graduate School. “Weighing the Benefits and Risks Associated with Proprietary School Attendance for Low-Income Singel Mother Students.” Defended Spring 2014. 

  • Committee, Dr. Felicia Sullivan. McCormack Graduate School. “Engaging Youth: Linking Design and Implementation Choices of Out-of-School Time Programs in Boston to the Development of Political Engagement Attitudes in Youth Age 14-18.” Defended Spring 2014. 

  • Committee, Dr. Life LeGeros.  Leadership in Urban Schools Program.  “The Association between Elementary Teacher Mathematics Licensure Test Scores and Student Growth in Massachusetts.” Defended Fall 2013.

  • Committee, Dr. Michael Tutty. McCormack Graduate School.  ” Health Reform Challenges: Understanding Why Low-Income Massachusetts Residents Remain Uninsured.” Defended Spring 2012.

  • Committee, Dr. Bridgett King. Department of Political Science, Kent State University.  “The effect of State Policy on the Individual Vote Decisions of African Americans in Presidential and Midterm Elections, 1996 to 2008.” Spring 2012.

  • Committee Co-Chair, Dr. Eric Matthews. “Christian Evangelicals and Politics.” Department of Political Science, Kent State University. Spring 2006.

Master’s Theses

• Capstone Advisor, Carly Antonellis.  McCormack Graduate School. “Legislating After Tragedy:  A Comparative Case Study of Jessica’s Law.” Defended May 2009.

• Capstone Advisor, Jeanmarie Spinetti. McCormack Graduate School. “Massachusetts Needle Exchange Programs.”  Defended May 2008.  

Undergraduate Honor’s Theses

• Honor’s College and Political Science Honor's Thesis Chair, Farrin Khan. “A Comparative Case Between Public & Private Hospitals’ Twitter Feed in New York City During COVID-19 Spring 2020.” Successful Defense, Spring 2021.  

• Honor’s College Thesis Chair, Martin Mulkerrin. “A Discussion about Polling during the 2016 General Election and The Effects that it May Have for American Democracy in the Future.” Successful Defense, Spring 2017.  

• Honor’s College Thesis Chair, Luc Figuearo-Miller. “Towards a Healthy Neighborhood: Recommendations for Health Assessments of Future Development in Upham’s Corner.” Success Defense, Spring 2015.

Undergraduate Independent Major Advisor

• Sonia Chien. “Holistic Institutional Reform: A Call for the Consideration of Poor and Minority Experience in the Creation of American Public Policy.” Completed Spring 2018.