Teaching Research Inside and Outside the Classroom

The near-exclusive focus on research in PhD training often leaves new graduates under-prepared for the professorate. While research is highly valued in hiring, tenure, and promotion processes at major research universities and elite liberal arts colleges, teaching and service are also important. In this chapter, I discuss how I teach research inside and outside the classroom—to develop a pipeline of new researchers, some of whom assist me in and collaborate with me on research. I learned to do this through mentorship I received in graduate school, and through trial and error. These experiences have enabled me to teach and mentor students while maintaining a high research output. My experiences at three different institutions—as an undergraduate student at a small liberal arts college, a graduate student at a major research university, and a professor at a comprehensive university—also helped me speak to research and teaching across institutional settings.