Co-Instructor

STA 119FS: Statistics as a Way of Thinking: History, Ideas, and Evidence

Fall 2026 – Duke University, Department of Statistical Science

Co-taught with Alexander Volfovsky.

• Co-creating a first-year seminar that teaches statistical reasoning through its own history, reading Stephen M. Stigler’s The History of Statistics with 16 first-semester students around a discussion table.
• Designing the course as a general-education entry point to quantitative work.
• Building and leading weekly labs in which students learn R by reconstructing the historical analyses they have just read, working from the original data toward reproducible reports of their own.
• Incorporating AI literacy into the course, focusing on responsible practices, ethical questions, and the assumptions behind the answers these tools produce.