I believe teaching is both a key responsibility and core benefit of being a researcher, and act accordingly. Notable teaching awards include the USF Innovation in Teaching with Technology Award (2023) (see also: USF ETS Lessons Learned) as well as the USF Faculty Mentor of the Year Award for 2015. For an example of my teaching style, please see the USF Centennial Economics Chair's Address & Fall 2025 Economic Update.
Recent Courses at University of San Francisco
undergraduate
The Global Economy (ECON 280 / BAIS 106) sample lecture slides
Economics, Politics, and Culture (ECON 368)
Natural Resource Economics and Development Policy (ECON 476/676)
MS-level graduate
Microeconomics: Theory and Applications (ECON 601)
Core Microeconomic Theory (ECON 603)
Graduate Econometrics I (ECON 620)
Causal Econometrics (ECON 637) sample lecture slides
Graduate Seminar (ECON 690)
Past Teaching at USF
undergraduate
- Environmental Economics (ECON 230)
- Principles of Microeconomics (ECON 111)
- Principles of Microeconomics (ECON 101)
- Directed Study (ECON 399) in Coastal Oceans and the Commons
MS-level graduate
- Directed Study (ECON 698) in Complexity Economics
- Directed Study (ECON 698) in Intro to Spatial Data with R
- Directed Study (ECON 698) in Spatial Data & Methods in Macroeconomics
Teaching Elsewhere
Faculty Leader
Advanced Graduate Workshop in Poverty, Development, and Globalization (Ph.D.)
Azim Premji University, Bangalore
Head Teaching Assistant and Co-Lecturer
Challenges of Sustainable Development
Columbia College, with Prof. Jeffrey Sachs
Teaching Assistant
Advanced Graduate Workshop in Poverty, Development, and Globalization (Ph.D.)
University of Manchester, for Profs. Joseph Stiglitz and Akbar Noman
Session Tutor
Microeconomics and Policy Analysis I
Columbia University SIPA, under Prof. Suresh Naidu
Teaching Assistant
Dynamics of Climate Variability & Climate Change (Masters in Climate and Society)
Columbia University, for Prof. Mark Cane and the late, great Prof. Lisa Goddard