C-SoDA Conference – New Faces in Political Methodology V

New Faces in Political Methodology V was held on April 28, 2012, and featured:

Adriana Crespo-Tenorio (Washington University in St Louis).

"Bayesian Analysis of Change Points: A Bivariate Approach."

Adriana received her PhD in 2013 and is currently Lead Researcher at Facebook.

Adrienne Hosek (University of California - Berkeley).

"Tax Preferences on the Income Roller Coaster."

Adrienne received her PhD in 2013 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at UC-Davis.

Molly Cohn Jackman (Stanford University).

"Legislative Organization and the Second Face of Power: Evidence from the US State Legislatures," coauthored with Sarah Anzia. This paper was published in the Journal of Politics.

Molly received her PhD in 2013 and is currently Public Policy Research Manager at Facebook.

Brenton Kenkel (University of Rochester).

"A General Solution to Nonignorable Missing Outcomes in Binary Choice Data." This research won the Best Graduate Student Poster Award at the Society for Political Methodology summer meeting.

Brenton received his PhD in 2014 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University.

Michele Margolis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

"Disentangling the Relationship between Religion and Politics: How Partisanship Affects Religious Beliefs." This paper is forthcoming (as "Cognitive Dissonance, Elections, and Religion: How Partisanship and the Political Landscape Shape Religious Behaviors") in Public Opinion Quarterly, and a book on the research, From Politics to the Pews: How Partisanship Affects Religious Behaviors and Identifications in America, is under contract with University of Chicago Press.

Michele received her PhD in 2014 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
 

Brendan O'Connor (Carnegie Mellon [Machine Learning]).

"Statistical Learning of Frames from Text."

Brendan received his PhD in 2014 and is currently an Assistant Professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences, and affiliate of the Computational Social Science Institute, at UMass Amherst.

Douglas Rice (Pennsylvania State University).

"Measuring the Issue Content of Supreme Court Opinions through Probabilistic Topic Models." This paper was published (as "Issue Divisions and U.S. Supreme Court Decision Making") in the Journal of Politics.

Doug is currently an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies in the Department of Political Science , and affiliate of the Computational Social Science Institute, at UMass Amherst.

Margaret (Molly) Roberts (Harvard University).

"How Robust Standard Errors Expose Problems They Do Not Fix," coauthored with Gary King. This paper was published in Political Analysis.

Molly received her PhD in 2014 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at UC - San Diego.