I am an economics educator with more than twenty years of experience across myriad contexts. My research focuses on the way economics is taught and assessed at the collegiate level, with a particular eye toward the economics gender gap and the time allocation of academic economists. Beyond this work, my research interests lie in course evaluation, active learning in the economics classroom, the impact of departmental policies on persistence in the economics degree, and teacher retention and recruitment.
My teaching focuses on helping students to appreciate and adopt the economic way of thinking so that they can become better decision makers in all aspects of their lives. To this end I seek to incorporate myriad strategies in my classes, from lecture and discussion to experiments and active learning.
My dissertation utilized data from the Sixth Quinquennial Survey of Academic Economists to examine the ways economics is taught and assessed differently at schools of varying Carnegie Classifications; the ways professor gender impacts economics instruction and assessment; and the difference between academic economists' actual and preferred time allocation.
I have presented my work at the annual conferences of the Center for Economic Education, the Association of Private Enterprise Education, and the American Economic Association.
I am a Lecturer of Economics in the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee.
My teaching focuses on helping students to appreciate and adopt the economic way of thinking so that they can become better decision makers in all aspects of their lives. To this end I seek to incorporate myriad strategies in my classes, from lecture and discussion to experiments and active learning.
My dissertation utilized data from the Sixth Quinquennial Survey of Academic Economists to examine the ways economics is taught and assessed differently at schools of varying Carnegie Classifications; the ways professor gender impacts economics instruction and assessment; and the difference between academic economists' actual and preferred time allocation.
I have presented my work at the annual conferences of the Center for Economic Education, the Association of Private Enterprise Education, and the American Economic Association.
I am a Lecturer of Economics in the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee.
