Teaching

Instructor of record

Fall 2025

Social connection: From Conversation to Networks

  • Instructor of record for undergraduate seminar course of own design

  • Awarded UVA Distinguished Teaching Fellowship for opportunity to teach

  • Awarded all-university Frank Finger Graduate Fellowship for Teaching (among the highest honors graduate students are eligible for, awarded to one PhD student for outstanding, organized, and stimulating teaching)

  • Evaluations: 4.93/5

  • Description: Who do we choose to be friends with? Why do we stay friends with them? What do we say and do during good conversations? How does our surrounding social network impact us? How do we perceive interactions between other people? Together, we will discuss the current research on social connection by answering questions such as these. We will explore why social ties are so important, why people behave the way they do during social interactions, and why people sometimes interpret the same interaction differently. Understanding how psychologists study social connection may prompt you to reflect on your own conversations, relationships, and social networks throughout this class.

Teaching assistant, lead lab instructor

Spring 2025

Experimental Design & Analysis II (R; graduate-level)

  • Assisted Dr. M. Joey Meyer

  • Evaluations: 4.92/5

  • Topics: Regression, power, ANOVA, ANOVA by regression, post-hoc tests, factorial ANOVA, model comparison, ANCOVA, repeated measures ANOVA, general linear model, MANOVA, multiple regression, multilevel models

Spring 2024

Research Methods & Data Analysis II (R; undergraduate)

  • Assisted Dr. M. Joey Meyer

  • Evaluations: 4.86/5

  • Topics: Regression, t-tests, power, validity, ANOVA, ANOVA by regression, factorial ANOVA, repeated measures ANOVA, non-parametric designs, multiple regression

Spring 2023

Research Methods & Data Analysis II (R; undergraduate)

  • Assisted Dr. M. Joey Meyer

  • Evaluations: NA

  • Topics: Regression, t-tests, power, validity, ANOVA, ANOVA by regression, factorial ANOVA, repeated measures ANOVA, non-parametric designs, multiple regression

Teaching assistant

Spring 2022

Introduction to Cognition

  • Assisted Dr. Mariana Teles
  • Evaluations: NA

Fall 2021

Neural Basis of Behavior

  • Assisted Dr. Erin Clabough
  • Evaluations: NA