Education

• Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

  Master's Degree

  
  Advisor: Professor Scott Gilbert
  

• Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  
  Main fields of study: International Economics, Monetary Economics, and Civil Conflict Advisor: Professor Zsolt Becsi
  

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Bachelor's Degree

  History and German
  
  

• Parkland College

  Certificate to Teach English as a Foreign Language

  
  
  

• Freie Universität Berlin

  German Language and Literature
  Summer semester abroad to study German language and culture.
  

• Southern Illinois University

  Graduate Student Instructor

  
  Economics of Contemporary Social Issues Introduction to Microeconomics Graduate Student Teacher of the Year 2014-2015 in the SIU Economics Department. *During this period I was also a teaching assistant, instead of instructor, for Professor Mitchell in spring semester 2014.
  

• Southern Illinois University

  Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant

  
  Organized data into Excel spreadsheets, graded quizzes, and held study sessions for undergraduate students in Professor Richard Grabowski's introductory economics course.