Teaching

Travis’ primary teaching interests fall along the following subfields of Political Science:

Comparative Politics: Politics of Policing; Repression and Control under Dictatorships; Institutions; Authoritarian Regimes; Elections in Emerging Democracies; and Election Violence.

International Relations: Human Rights, Conflict; Political Economy of Development; International Political Economy; International Organizations

Methods: Research Design and Conceptualization; Causal Inference; and Survey Design

Teaching Experience:

Drexel University

  • PSCI T380: Authoritarian Politics, Fall 2023
  • PSCI T380: Politics of Policing, Spring 2022, Fall 2022
  • PSCI 240: Comparative Politics II, Winter 2023
  • PSCI 140: Comparative Politics I, Spring 2022, Winter 2022, Winter 2023

Emory University 

  • Introduction to Statistical Inference R-Lab (Lab instructor for QTM 100: Intro to Statistical Inference), spring 2019
  • Repression and Control under Dictatorships (Designed and co-taught with Jennifer Gandhi), spring 2017
  • Introduction to International Politics (Teaching assistant for Eric Reinhardt), fall 2016

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

  • Intro to Comparative Politics (9 sections)
  • Intro to International Relations (1 section)

As a lecturer, Travis received the New Faculty Commendation for Teaching Commitment from the Wally Cordes Teaching and Faculty Support Center at the University of Arkansas

Course syllabi and class evaluations are available, if requested.