Teaching
My teaching is guided by two principles: build foundations students can carry beyond the classroom and design learning appropriate to students’ stage of development.
For early-stage students, I emphasize structured opportunities to build foundational skills and work through unfamiliar problems. For more advanced students, I provide greater room for interpretation, judgment, and the defense of evidence-based decisions while maintaining clear expectations and milestones.
My professional experience in events, hospitality, and business informs the problems students encounter in class, while my research training helps students move from information toward analysis, interpretation, and defensible decision-making.
Teaching Experience
THM 3396 · Marketing in Tourism & Hospitality Management
Instructor of Record · Writing-Intensive Course · Student Evaluation: 4.35 / 5
I used cases, discussion, and a semester marketing proposal to ask students to evaluate problems from multiple customer, organizational, and stakeholder perspectives. Students were expected not only to make recommendations, but also to justify why those recommendations were defensible.
STHM 1115 · Foundations of Excel for Sport and Tourism
Instructor of Record · Student Evaluation: 4.55 / 5
I organized the course around how data are used in practice: cleaning and organizing information, analyzing it, interpreting results, and communicating findings. Excel functions therefore became tools for accomplishing larger analytical tasks rather than isolated commands to memorize.
Additional Teaching Experience
THM 3396 · Marketing in Tourism & Hospitality Management
Guest Lecturer · Communications & Online Marketing
Teaching Areas
I am prepared to contribute to undergraduate and graduate teaching in:
Event Management · Tourism & Hospitality Analytics · Marketing · Research Methods
My professional and research experience also creates opportunities to incorporate event operations, spatial and data analytics, consumer behavior, and evidence-based decision-making into these courses.
Teaching Recognition
Student-Selected Faculty Appreciation Honoree
Selected by a student-athlete for faculty appreciation through Temple University Athletics.
Teaching Development
Certificates
- Accessible Temple Training · Center for the Advancement of Teaching, Temple University · 2026
- Fox Online Teaching Certificate · Fox School of Business, Temple University · 2026
- Teaching Academy Certificate · Fox School of Business, Temple University · 2025
Selected Training
- Writing-Intensive Course Workshop Series · 2025 & 2026
- Immersive Simulations & Gamification: Engaging Learners in the Digital Age · 2025
- Neurodiversity: What it is, Why it Matters, and How it Might Show Up in Your Classroom · 2025
- Glazed (Over) and Confused: Sparking Student Engagement in the Classroom · 2025
- Teaching with Zoom: New Faculty and TAs · 2025