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When I graduated from Drew University in 2001 I was torn between two loves - medicine and politics. Although I was a political science major in college, and even spent a semester in Brussels working at the European Parliament, I was sure I would go on to a career in medicine. Needing time to decide on a path for my future, I accepted a position as an elementary school teacher. While the two-year experience was quite different than teaching at the university level, it fostered in me a love for teaching, enthusiasm to pursue a career that would allow me to share my passion for politics, and a desire to work closely with students to motivate them to appreciate the political world that affects their lives. Awards • 2008. Emory University, Department of Political Science, Graduate Student Teaching Award. • 2007-2008. Dean’s Teaching Fellowship. Emory University. Teaching Experience • Instructor, Foreign Policy of the United States. Emory University. Fall 2008. • Instructor, Foreign Policy of the United States. Emory University. Fall 2007. • Co-instructor, Globalization and Human Rights. Emory University. Spring 2007. • Teaching Assistant, Introduction to International Relations. Emory University. Fall 2006. Part of the graduate student experience at Emory is taking part in TATTO (Teaching Assistant Training and Teaching Opportunity Program), beginning the summer of your 3rd year. This intense one-week course on college teaching strategies and techniques is followed by semi-weekly seminar sessions that focus on issues of special relevance to teaching political science. This summer I will be leading several seminars at TATTO on teaching in graduate school and will assist in leading a day-long micro-session in which each TATTO participant is asked to prepare a 10 minute presentation. The leaders then provide feedback on the strengths and weakness of the student’s teaching performance. (For more details on this program see Gibbs Knots and Eleanor Main published “Teaching Ph.D. Students to Teach Political Science: The Emory TATTO Program” in the Sept 1999 edition of PS: Political Science and Politics). In addition to the classes I have taught, I am prepared to teach: • International Relations: War and Politics; The Politics of Weapons; Domestic Politics and International Relations; Termination and Consequences of War; Ethnic Conflict; International Political Economy; The Politics of Globalization; Health and Human Rights; International Human Rights • Foreign Policy: Institutions of Foreign Policy; U.S. National Security Council; Covert Foreign Policy • American Politics: Introduction to American Politics; The American Presidency; Institutional Interactions: Congress and the Executive • Political Leadership and Political Biography: from an International Relations or American Politics Perspective • Introduction to Political Psychology • Undergraduate Research Design http://www.drew.edushapeimage_2_link_0