Workshops and Invited Lectures
How Reliable is Crime Data?
Bates College (2025)
Invited Lecture, Course: Thinking Sociologically with Numbers (Undergraduate), Sociology Department
Data Cleaning and Analysis With R
Rowan University (2025)
Invited Lecture, Course: Research Methods I (Graduate), Law and Justice Studies Department
How Reliable is Crime Data?
Rowan University (2025)
Invited Lecture, Course: Criminal Justice Research (Undergraduate), Law and Justice Studies Department
Web Scraping with R
Princeton University (2025)
Workshop, Program for Quantitative and Analytical Political Science
This workshop teaches graduate students how to web scrape with R using the rvest and RSelenium packages. This covers web scraping static websites, responsible practices for web scraping, and introduces web scraping dynamic pages using RSelenium.
Data Cleaning and Analysis with R
Princeton University (2025)
Workshop, SPI 300 S06 – Policing in the United States
This one-day R workshop is designed for beginners to develop the skills necessary to quantitatively analyze data. Participants will learn how to use the programming language R to explore and manipulate datasets, focusing on real-world applications in social sciences. The workshop covers fundamental skills such as identifying issues with the data, cleaning the data by filtering, standardizing, and fixing issues in the data, visualizing data and making descriptive statistics.
How Reliable is Crime Data?
Princeton University (2025)
Invited Lecture, Course: The Politics of Policing (Undergraduate), Politics Department
Invited Lecture on how reliable administrative FBI crime data is for research.
Survey Data Analysis With R: A Three-Day Academic Workshop
Princeton University (2025)
Workshop, Criminal Justice @ SPIA, Data-Driven Social Science & Survey Research Center
This three-day R workshop is designed for beginners to develop the skills necessary to quantitatively analyze data. Participants will learn how to use the programming language R to explore and manipulate datasets, focusing on real-world applications in social sciences. The workshop covers fundamental skills such as identifying issues with the data, cleaning the data by filtering, standardizing, and fixing issues in the data, visualizing descriptive statistics, and documenting every part of this process. Each day concludes with practical exercises, and participants will leave with the skills to convert raw data into useful information. While these skills can be used in many social science fields, this workshop focuses on topics most commonly used for quantitative research of criminal justice topics. The data used will also introduce students to some of the most common data used by criminal justice researchers and practitioners.
Current Issues in Policing
Rowan University (2024)
Invited Lecture, Course: Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice (Graduate), Law and Justice Studies Department
R for Crime Research
Sam Houston State University (2023)
Workshop, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Understanding FBI Crime Data
Sam Houston State University (2022)
Invited Lecture, Course: Advanced Research Methods (Graduate), Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Crime Data in the United States
Sam Houston State University (2022)
Invited Lecture, Course: Introduction to Methods of Research (Undergraduate), Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Research Methods and Crime Analysis (Graduate)
University of Pennsylvania (2019)
Teaching Assistant, Department of Criminology
Data Visualization Using R
University of Pennsylvania (2019)
Invited Lecture, Course: Pro-seminar in Criminal Justice (Graduate), Department of Criminology
Research Methods and Crime Analysis (Graduate)
University of Pennsylvania (2018)
Teaching Assistant, Department of Criminology
Data Visualization Using R
University of Pennsylvania (2018)
Invited Lecture, Course: Research Methods and Crime Analysis (Graduate), Department of Criminology
Statistics for the Social Sciences (Undergraduate)
University of Pennsylvania (2017)
Teaching Assistant, Department of Criminology
Data Visualization Using R
University of Pennsylvania (2017)
Invited Lecture, Course: Statistics for the Social Sciences (Undergraduate), Department of Criminology
Program Evaluation and Data Analysis (Graduate)
University of Pennsylvania (2016)
Teaching Assistant, Fels Institute of Government