C-SoDA Conference – New Faces in Political Methodology VIII

New Faces in Political Methodology VIII was held on April 25, 2015, and featured:

Drew Dimmery (New York University).

"Ideological Nonprofits? Inferring Political Ideology of Ostensibly Non-partisan Organizations," coauthored with Andrew Peterson. This paper was published (as "Shining the Light on Dark Money: Political Spending by Nonprofits.") in RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences.

Drew received his PhD in 2016 and is currently a Research Data Scientist in the Core Data Science Team's Experiments and Causal Inference group at Facebook.

Anita Gohdes (University of Mannheim).

"Information, Connectivity, and Strategic State Repression." This paper was published (as "Pulling the Plug: Network Disruptions and Violence in Civil Conflict") in the Journal of Peace Research.

Anita received her PhD in 2015 and served from 2015-16 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs & Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. She is currently an Assistant Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich.

Alex Hughes (University of California, San Diego).

"Social Voting and Election Coordination in Rural Honduras."

Alex received his PhD in 2016 and is currently an adjunct assistant professor at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dean Knox (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

"A Model for Path Data."

Dean received his PhD in 2017 and served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Microsoft Research NYC computational social science group. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at Princeton University.

Christopher Lucas (Harvard University).

"The Balance-Sample Size Frontier in Matching Methods for Causal Inference," coauthored with Gary King and Richard Nielsen. This paper was published in the American Journal of Political Science.

Chris is an Department of Political Science at Washington University as an Assistant Professor.

Inga Schwabe (University of Twente [Department of Research Methodology, Measurement, and Data Analysis]).

"Genes, Culture and Conservatism: A Psychometric-Genetic Approach," coauthored with Wilfired Jonker and Stephanie M. van den Berg. This paper was published in Behavioral Genetics.

Inga received her PhD in 2016 and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Methodology and Statistics at Tilburg University.

Jane Lawrence Sumner (Emory University).

"Commitment without Control: Within-Country Variation in Political Risk and the Efficacy of Bilateral Investment Treaties."

Jane received her PhD in 2016 and is currently Assistant Professor and Benjamin E. Lippincott Chair in Political Economy in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota.