3. Service

One of the primary reasons I was eager to join Hood College was to be able to become a valued member of a close-knit community and have the opportunity to contribute to that community. From my first year, I made it a point to attend several admissions events - including teaching mini-courses at Admitted Students Day - every year, to advise students, to try to serve on a faculty committee, and to lead or participate in students’ Departmental Honors papers.

I have served as an elected faculty representative on the Curriculum Committee (2018-2020), and in the current year (F 2019-S 2020), I am serving as the chair of the Curriculum Committee. This leadership position has allowed me to gain valuable insight and experience in understanding the behind-the-scenes administrative work at a college, experience leading a small group, and interacting with faculty in other departments.

I have made it a point in my career to focus on student success and be as welcoming and helpful to students as I can be. I have advised a total of 76 students in my 7 semesters at Hood so far, been on the committee for 6 Departmental Honors Papers, chaired 3 Departmental Honors Papers (one of which my student published in an academic journal), taken 2 students to present at an academic conference (the Eastern Economic Association Conference in March 2019), and managed 6 Teaching Assistants for economics. I have written numerous letters of recommendation to students applying for scholarships, study abroad, jobs, and admission to graduate programs.

I have also given several presentations or attended academic panels open to the Hood Community. I was a panelist for two panels, “Globalization and its Discontents” (March 2, 2017) and “The European Union: Dead at 60?” (September 5, 2018), and was the keynote speaker for the Phi Kappa Phi induction ceremony (May 5, 2019).

I have also been very active in representing my department and furthering its goals. I assist with our induction ceremony into our economics, business, and marketing honor societies each spring, and since 2017, have been a speaker for the Omicron Delta Epsilon induction ceremony for economics. I have served on three search committees that led to the hiring of new faculty in the department, and have chaired one such successful search for our Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics position in Spring 2019. In April 2018, on behalf of our department, I proposed several changes to the Economics B.A. to ensure that all majors have job-relevant training in econometrics, and to allow more flexibility with a generalized concentration, which were approved by the Curriculum Committee for Fall 2019.

For my scholarly community, I have been a reviewer for the Journal of Institutional Economics, Review of Austrian Economics, and European Journal of Law and Economics.

As mentioned above, I am a firm believer in leveraging my teaching resources to be accessible to the wider public and to promote best practices among practitioners and instructors. In addition to making all of my teaching resources freely accessible on the web, my academic blog occasionally covers both academic and pedagogical tools and techniques relevant for economists, data scientists, and academic instructors.

Please see the Evidence of Service section of my dossier for additional documentation.

Concluding Remarks

With the exception of the Fall 2019 semester, I have accomplished all of the above while a Visiting Assistant Professor at Hood College. I respectfully submit this dossier in support of my application for Third Year review. Please see the remaining sections on my dossier website for additional documentation and evidence in support of this narrative.