Awards and Honors

2022-2023 Kenneth T. Kofmehl Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award 

2023-2024 Purdue University’s Teaching for Tomorrow Fellowship Award

2021-2022 College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher Award 

2020-2021 Professor of the Year Award from Purdue’s chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society

2019-2020 Professor of the Year Award from Purdue’s chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society

Courses Taught 

I pull from both my unique background in intelligence and foreign policy and established teaching principles to guide my course design and teaching practices. I have added two courses to the curriculum at Purdue—Spies and Lies: Studies in Intelligence and National Security and The Politics of Terrorism—and redesigned our Introduction to US Foreign Policy, which I regularly teach. Courses I teach include:

Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts

• Transformative Texts, Critical Thinking, and Communication II: Modern World (Modern Warfare)

Political Science 

• Introduction to International Relations (lecture and distance)

• Spies and Lies: Studies in Intelligence and National Security (200 and 400-level)

• Introduction to US Foreign Policy

• The Politics of Terrorism (200 and 400-level)

• Modern Weapons and International Relations

• Conflict and Development: US in Afghanistan

Undergraduate Education 

As Director of Undergraduate Studies at Purdue University, I have had the pleasure of leading a curriculum refresh and standing up an undergraduate preceptor program. For programs considering standing up a preceptor program, please find my Spring 2024 Preceptor Program Handbook here. This resource is intended to provide an overview of our process at Purdue and offer guidance for others. The document is "living" in the sense it is updated each semester  as the program grows and evolves.

I have served as faculty advisor for Purdue's award winning Delta Omega chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the Political Science National Honor Society, since 2019. In addition to working with students to plan campus events, I regularly bring students to Washington DC to  participate in the National Student Research Conference. 

Campus Contributions

• Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts Steering Committee 

• College of Liberal Arts Faculty Senate

• Truman Scholar Selection Committee