Courses Taught
ADV315 History and Development of Advertising (undergraduate, elective, online)
ADV324 Communicating Sustainability (undergraduate, elective, cross-listed with PR324)
ADV318 Consumer Psychology (undergraduate, elective)
ADV385 Advertising, Sustainability and the Conscientious Consumer (graduate, elective)
ADV373 Integrated Communication Campaigns (undergraduate, required, cross-listed with PR377K)
COM370 Media & Consumer Culture in the Lives of Children & Teens (Honors class)
ADV380J Quantitative & Qualitative Research (graduate, required, online)
Teaching Awards
At UT-Austin
2023-2024
Chosen as my college’s only tenure-track nominee for the University of Texas SystemAcademy of Distinguished Teachers, which recognizes outstanding educators across the UT System academic institutions
2020
Sharon L. Dunwoody Award, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin – Madison. Given to doctoral graduates of the program who have excelled in research, teaching and/or service within 10 years of graduation
2017
Named a Provost’s Teaching Fellow, UT-Austin
2016
Regents Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Texas System Board of Regents highest honor awarded to faculty who have demonstrated extraordinary classroom performance and innovation in undergraduate instruction
2015
Finalist, Moody College of Communication Teaching Excellence Award, UT-Austin
2013-2014
Course Development Award, UT-Austin Office of Sustainability and Center for the Core Curriculum. Awarded one of three university-wide course development awards to develop a new undergraduate course focused on sustainability.
2012
Finalist, Promising Professor award from the Mass Communication & Society Division and the Graduate Education Interest Group of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
2011-2012
Finalist, Dads’ Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship, UT-Austin. Nominated by dean of the College of Communication for university-wide teaching award that recognizes excellence in teaching at the undergraduate level
2010-2011
Finalist, Dads’ Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship, UT-Austin. Nominated by dean of the College of Communication for university-wide teaching award that recognizes excellence in teaching at the undergraduate level
As a graduate student
2006
Teaching Fellow, College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin – Madison; award recognizes teaching assistants for “outstanding success as students and teachers”
2004
Finalist, Early Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin – Madison; award recognizes “outstanding and inspirational achievement on the part of TAs with fewer than four semesters of teaching experience.”