Data Science Faculty

Bradley Bartos

ahackett — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 16:54:47 +0000

Bradley Bartos ahackett Tue, 09/01/2020 - 09:54

Social Sciences 306

Bradley J. Bartos is an Assistant Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy. He received his Ph.D. in Criminology, Law & Society at the University of California, Irvine in June 2020, and a Master of Arts in Social Ecology, also from UC-Irvine, in 2016. He is an author of Design and Analysis of Time Series Experiments (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Interrupted Time Series Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2019). His research has been published in a number of social science journals, including Prevention Science, Experimental Criminology, Criminology and Public Policy, and Archives of Suicide Research. Dr. Bartos’s research leverages natural variation in criminal justice and social policies and employs quasi-experimental time-series designs to evaluate the impact of these policy changes on crime, injury, and mortality trends. Through his work with the Irvine Simulation Modeling Lab, Dr. Bartos developed population projection models using discrete-event simulation for California's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Los Angeles county Sheriff's Department, and California Department of State Hospitals.

Assistant Professor

bartos@arizona.edu

Prof. Bartos's CV (8/23)

Criminal justice policies

Crime and mortality statistics

Time-series quasi-experiments

Bradley Bartos

Chad Westerland

nriddel — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 17:32:58 +0000

Chad Westerland nriddel Tue, 04/02/2019 - 10:32

Social Sciences 321

Chad Westerland is Associate Professor of Political Science in the School of Government and Public Policy. His research interests are judicial politics, American politics, and political methodology. His work has appeared in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. He also has received a National Science Foundation grant for his work on immigration law. Professor Westerland teaches undergraduate courses on American Constitutional Law, Law and Social Change, and Judicial Process and graduate courses on American politics and statistical methodology.

Associate Professor

cwesterl@arizona.edu

Prof. Westerland's CV (8/23)

American politics

Law and courts

Methodology

Chad Westerland

Chris Weber

nriddel — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 17:31:23 +0000

Chris Weber nriddel Tue, 04/02/2019 - 10:31

Social Sciences 333

Chris Weber is a Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy. He received his PhD in political science from Stony Brook University in 2008. Dr. Weber specializes in political psychology, and political behavior, with a focus on American political campaigns and ideology. In addition, he has research interests in political methodology, primarily experimental methods and measurement. His work has been published in The American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Social Science Quarterly, Human Communication Research and Political Research Quarterly. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses on political psychology, the mass media, and research methods.

Professor

chrisweber@arizona.edu

Prof. Weber's CV (8/23)

American politics

Political psychology

Methodology

Chris Weber

Yotam Shmargad

nriddel — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 17:17:26 +0000

Yotam Shmargad nriddel Tue, 04/02/2019 - 10:17

Social Sciences 314B

Yotam Shmargad is a computational social scientist whose research focuses on understanding how digital platforms shape social and political life in the United States. He uses a mix of statistical and computational techniques, including social network analysis, online data collection, virtual experimentation, machine learning, and econometric methods. His research speaks to questions about how social media dampen certain disparities while magnifying others, and how social media can both fuel political polarization and incivility as well as extinguish their flames. Shmargad’s work has appeared in the Journal of Politics, Political Communication, the Journal of Information Policy, the Journal of Political Marketing, the Journal of Interactive Marketing, PLOS One, Social Science Computer Review, and the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, among other venues. Before joining the University of Arizona, Shmargad received his PhD in Marketing from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Associate Professor

Director of Undergraduate Studies

yotam@arizona.edu

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Online behavior

Political communication

Social networks

Yotam Shmargad

Javier Osorio

nriddel — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 16:25:03 +0000

Javier Osorio nriddel Tue, 04/02/2019 - 09:25

Social Sciences 326

Javier Osorio is an Associate Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy. His research analyzes the micro-foundations and dynamics of political and criminal violence with particular focus in Latin America. To address this agenda, Dr. Osorio uses a broad range of quantitative methods including natural language processing, quasi-experimental and experimental techniques, geographic information systems, and big data analytics.

Dr. Osorio is currently involved in collaborative research projects focused on supervised event coding on conflict with the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Defense – Minerva Initiative. He is also the founder of the Academy for Security Analysis, a project devoted to providing training and implementing randomized controlled trials on security in Central America with the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

In 2015, he received an award from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for the “Best Dissertation” on Public Safety, Victimization, and Justice in Latin American and the Caribbean. In 2017, he received the “Best Paper by an Emerging Scholar” award from the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA). Dr. Osorio has published his work in the Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Social Science Computer Review, and the American Journal of Political Science.

Dr. Osorio received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame in 2013. He previously worked as an Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York.

Associate Professor

josorio1@arizona.edu

Prof. Osorio's CV (8/23)

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Comparative politics

Political and criminal violence

Natural language processing

Javier Osorio

Adam Douglas Henry

nriddel — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 16:11:31 +0000

Adam Douglas Henry nriddel Tue, 04/02/2019 - 09:11

Social Sciences 329

Adam Douglas Henry is a Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy, and is Director of the University of Arizona's Computational Social Science Program. Dr. Henry's research focuses on policy learning and sustainable development, asking particularly how networked groups of actors in the policy process collaborate to manage complex and divisive issues of environmental policy and sustainability. Henry's recent research has focused on the integration of science and policy in issues of environmental risk (in a project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation) and the development of computational models of social influence and the adoption of residential solar energy (in a project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory). Henry uses a variety of approaches to study questions of policy learning and sustainability, including agent-based modeling, statistical models of network structure, and mathematical models of self-organizing networks.

Dr. Henry joined the University of Arizona faculty in 2012, and teaches courses in environmental policy, program evaluation, and statistics. Henry is a core faculty member in the University of Arizona's Master of Public Administration (MPA) and Master of Public Policy (MPP) programs. Henry was a recipient of a Giorgio Ruffolo Fellowship in Sustainability Science and spent two years as a research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Henry is originally from Virginia, completed a B.A. and B.S. at Washington and Lee University, and completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis.

Professor

adhenry@arizona.edu

Adam Douglas Henry's CV (8/23)

Social networks

Environmental sustainability

Computational modeling

Adam Douglas Henry

Frank Gonzalez

nriddel — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 16:09:14 +0000

Frank Gonzalez nriddel Tue, 04/02/2019 - 09:09

Social Sciences 337

Frank is an Associate Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy (SGPP). He received his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln in May 2017. He received a Master of Arts in Political Science at UNL, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Delaware in 2011. He directs the Psychology of Inequality and Politics (PIP) Lab, where theories from psychology, sociology, and social neuroscience are used to understand the propagation of inequality and intolerance in American politics, particularly with regard to race and class. Frank's research uses observational survey data and a variety of experimental methods, including implicit association measures, cognitive and behavioral tasks, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). His work has been published in political science journals like Political Research Quarterly and Political Communication as well as psychology journals such as Behavioural Brain Research, Personality and Individual Differences, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: B.

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Associate Professor

fgonzo@arizona.edu

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Political psychology

Race and politics

Biology and politics

Frank Gonzalez

Anne Boustead

nriddel — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:37:31 +0000

Anne Boustead nriddel Mon, 04/01/2019 - 10:37

Social Sciences 331

Annie Boustead researches legal and policy issues related to electronic surveillance, privacy, policing, and drug policy. She is particularly interested in empirically studying law enforcement surveillance, and evaluating the impact of policies regulating this surveillance. She has a Ph.D. from the Pardee RAND Graduate School, where her dissertation focused on the interplay between commercial data collection and law enforcement surveillance. While completing her Ph.D., she was an assistant policy analyst at RAND, working on projects related to electronic surveillance, cyber security, and drug policy. She also has a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law.

Associate Professor

boustead@arizona.edu

Prof. Boustead's CV (8/23)

Law and policy

Drug policy

Surveillance and privacy

Anne Boustead