teaching contributions

Improving Quality in American Higher Education: Learning Outcomes and Assessments for the 21st Century captures a national faculty-led effort to define and assess the essential concepts and competencies undergraduates need, offering a clear framework for strengthening learning outcomes across major disciplines and advancing the quality of U.S. higher education.

The Sociology Project: Introducing the Sociological Imagination 

invites students to explore how social contexts shape individual lives, using the discipline’s big questions to spark curiosity and cultivate a critical sociological perspective.

The Structure of Schooling: Readings in the Sociology of Education introduces students to key sociological research on schools, exploring how educational institutions shape individuals and society while covering both classic topics like stratification and contemporary issues such as bullying, school choice, and teen social media use.