Alumni: Post-Docs

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.