I have taught undergraduate and graduate courses across a wide range of Canadian politics areas — federalism, political parties, intergovernmental relations, and public policy — both at Queen's and at universities in Japan, the UK, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and China.
For several years I taught the first-year introductory course, POLS 110, and have been teaching it again since 2019. I regularly teach a third-year course on electoral systems and a fourth-year seminar on political communications.
In 2013, I was awarded the Frank Knox Award for Excellence in Teaching and in 2010 the W. J. Barnes Teaching Excellence Award.
I am guided by Alfred North Whitehead's The Aims of Education. In my introductory class, I try to impart what Whitehead calls "romance" — to light the spark of knowledge. In upper-year courses, "precision" is entirely appropriate. At the graduate level, I seek "generalization" — students making new connections and creating new knowledge.
