Teaching

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.”