People

Sebastian Bauhoff

Harvard University

Ph.D. candidate in Health Policy (Economics track) at Harvard University. He is interested in applying empirical methods to health policy, particularly to topics at the intersection of health, labor and public economics.

Jon Bischof

Harvard University

Ph.D. student in the Department of Government. His research interests include the use of panel data in comparative politics and IR, causal inference and matching, and political economy. He is currently working on the YourCast package in R.

Matthew Blackwell

Harvard University

Graduate student in the Department of Government at Harvard. He likes statistical methodology and game theory, but cannot seem to find the perfect place to apply them. He co-wrote the Amelia II package and frontend for R.

Skyler Cranmer

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include political methodology where he has concentrated on missing data problems and statistical computing, and international relations where he studies political violence (terrorism in particular) through both formal and empirical models.

Michael Gill

Harvard University

Ph.D. student in the Department of Government. His interests include the application of statistical methods to comparative politics and political economy, with a primary focus on issues of development. He is currently working on an evaluation of Mexico's Seguro Popular health insurance program.

Justin Grimmer

Stanford University

Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. His research areas include political methodology and political behavior. His work focuses on estimating the causal effects of social networks and political/social elites on mass political behavior. He has also implemented ARIMA time series models into Zelig and is currently developing and applying unsupervised learning routines for a variety of applications in political science.

Yichen Guan

Graduate student in Middle Eastern Studies. Her current research mainly focuses on the relationship between the diverse forms of authoritarianism and authoritarian persistence in the Middle East. She is interested in quantitative methodology in political science, and she is currently working as a research assistant for Professor Gary King and Molly Roberts. In her future research, she plans to combine the rigorous theory of comparative authoritarianism in the Middle East with sound empirical testing with programming skills such as R and STATA.

Dan Hopkins

Georgetown University

Assistant Professor in the Government Department at Georgetown University. His research interests include urban and local politics, political behavior, and political methodology. He has assisted in the development of the "Anchors" package for the analysis of survey data with anchoring vignettes and has worked on automated methods of content analysis. In addition, his work on contextual effects in political science has built on recent methodological innovations relating to selection bias, hierarchical modeling, and matching.

David Kane

Harvard University

Ph.D. Political Economy and Government from Harvard, was a lecturer in the Department of Government in 2002-2003 and taught GOV 1000. He is interested in the use of R for teaching, matching methods and applications of statistics in accounting and finance.

Aaron Kaufman

He is a William Yandell Elliott Fellow in the Department of Government at Harvard University. His methodological interests are causal inference, field experiments, natural experiments, statistical programming, and natural language processing. His substantive interests are representation, California politics, state and local politics, voting behavior, and ... Read more about Aaron Kaufman

Tami Kim

Harvard University

Undergraduate student at Harvard University, concentrating in Government. She is currently working on partisan taunting project under Gary King. Her research interests include public opinion and development of political beliefs.

Patrick Lam

Harvard University

Ph.D. student in the Department of Government. His research interests are in the application of quantitative methods to areas of comparative politics and international relations including democratization and international political economy. He is currently working on integrating various models into Zelig in R.

Christopher Lucas

Graduate student in the Department of Government. His research focuses on political economy and computational social science. In political economy, he works on migration, trade, and foreign aid with a focus on developing economies in Asia. In computational social science, he is interested in automated content analysis, machine learning, and opinion dynamics.

Ryan Moore

Washington University in St. Louis

Assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis.

Rich Nielsen

Harvard University

Ph.D. student in the Department of Government and holds an AM degree from the Harvard Statistics Department.  His research applies causal inference methods to topics in international political economy, international law, and human rights.  He is currently working on comparisons between matching methods.

Eleanor Powell

Yale University

Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University and resident fellow of the Institution for Social Policy Studies. Her research interests are in primarily in American politics, with special emphasis on congressional politics, political parties, and the role of money in politics.

Soledad Prillaman

Graduate student in the Department of Government at Harvard University. She received her B.A. summa cum laude from Texas A&M University in Political Science and Economics. Her research interests center around economic and political development, focusing on poverty alleviation programs and welfare state development in developing countries.  

Maya Sen

Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government and holds a J.D. from the Stanford Law School. Her research focuses on the intersection of quantitative methodology, law and courts, and race and ethnic politics, with a particular emphasis on causal inferences and processes.

Anton Strezhnev

Ph.D student in Government focusing on international relations and political methodology. His research interests include the political economy of international organizations and the effect of domestic politics on foreign policymaking. Methodologically, he is interested in text analysis, survey experiments and causal inference in time-series and network data. Previously, he received a B.S. in International Politics from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.

Miya Woolfalk

Harvard University

Ph.D. student in the Department of Government. Her primary field of research is American politics, and her research interests include quantitative methods, political behavior and public opinion, racial and ethnic politics, and social policy and inequality. Her current work uses automated content analysis to evaluate the racial and political content of discourse in social institutions and networks.