Directors
Professor of Statistics
Professor of Sociology and Statistics
Affiliates
Assistant Professor Joint in Statistics and Political Science
Developing methods for causal inference in the social sciences, including both randomized experiments and inference with observational data
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Comparative politics with a focus on West Africa; experimental methodology with an emphasis on sensitive survey questions
Professor of Geography
Geographies of invention and knowledge flow; impacts of trade on U.S. labor markets; microeconomics of agglomeration
Assistant Professor of Geography
Generation, maintenance, and geographic reproduction of social and economic inequalities, with an emphasis on immigration and internal migration patterns
Professor of Mathematics
Applied mathematics, including social network analysis, nonlinear science, network science, and mathematical biology
Assistant Professor of Education
Item response theory; psychometrics; measurement and assessment; mixed, multilevel, and growth models
Professor of Education
Methodology for multi-site evaluations; hierarchical models; methods for Bayesian analysis; longitudinal analysis
Professor of Education
Item response theory and item factor analysis; psychometrics; nonlinear and latent variable models
Assistant Professor Joint in Public Policy and Political Science
Regional conflict; economic development; political economics
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
International and comparative politics; using vast social media data to study subnational conflict
Professor of Biostatistics
Global public health issues such as disease surveillance, health challenges of aging populations, and estimating global HIV infection rates
Professor of Communication Studies
Modern media; news coverage; political communication
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies
Multimodal communication in mass media, specifically with regards to politics, by computational methods
Professor of Epidemiology
Epidemiologic methodology and biostatistics; causal and bias analysis; global health in developing countries; comparative effectiveness research
Professor of Economics
Econometrics and economic theory; relaxing ad-hoc parametric restrictions; revealed preference, shape restrictions, and hedonic models
Assistant Professor of Economics
Modeling, inference, cost-benefit analysis, external validity and treatment effect estimation of social experiments; causality and revealed preference analysis
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Causal inference in the social sciences; Data science; Inequality; Population inference
Assistant Professor of Communication
Computational social science; statistical inference; technology and society; radicalization