C-SoDA Conference – New Faces in Political Methodology VII

New Faces in Political Methodology VII was held on April 26, 2014, and featured:

Adeline Lo (University of California, San Diego).

"Predicting Civil Wars with Higher Order Interactions."

Adeline received her PhD in 2016 and is currently a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University.

Paasha Mahdavi (University of California, Los Angeles).

"Extortion in the Oil States: Nationalization, Regulatory Structure and Corruption." (This paper was published -- as "Institutions and the 'resource curse': Evidence from cases of oil-related bribery" in Comparative Political Studies.

Paasha received his PhD in 2015 and is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Jason Morgan (Ohio State University).

"The Latent Path Model for Dynamic Social Networks with an Application to Party Switching in Poland."

Jason received his PhD in 2015 and is currently Vice President of Behavioral Intelligence at Wiretap, where he leads the Data Science team.

Constanza Schibber (Washington University in St. Louis).

"The Success of the Legislative Median: Variations in the Separation of Powers and Budget Allocations."

Constanza received her PhD in 2016, served as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Methodology and Data Science at the University of Virginia, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University.

Emily Schilling (University of Iowa).

"Field of Forces: Strategic Interdependence in Legislative Behavior."

Emily received her PhD in 2015 and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Tennessee.

Yuki Shiraito (Princeton University).

"Strengthening Weak Instruments by Modeling Compliance," coauthored with Mark Ratkovic.

Yuki received his PhD in 2017 and served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Quantitative Social Science Program at Dartmouth University. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan.

Neelanjan Sircar (Columbia University).

"Analyzing Randomized Experiments with Spillovers."

Neelanjan received his PhD in 2014. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania.

Brandon Stewart (Harvard University).

"Computer Assisted Text Analysis for Comparative Politics," co-authored with Christopher Lucas, Richard Nielsen, Margaret E. Roberts, Alex Storer, and Dustin Tingley. This paper was published in Political Analysis.

Brandon received his PhD in 2015 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Princeton University.