People

FACULTY
 
Kosuke Imai
Associate Professor
Corwin Hall 036 | Department of Politics | Princeton University | Princeton, NJ 08544
p: 609-258-6601
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Kosuke Imai is an associate professor in the Department of Politics and an executive committee member of the Committee for Statistical Studies at Princeton University. He specializes in the development of statistical methods and their applications to social science research.  He has published more than thirty peer-refereed journal articles in political science, statistics, economics, and psychology.
 
Adam Meirowitz
John Work Garrett Professor of Politics
Corwin Hall 040 | Department of Politics | Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey 08544
p: 609-258-4859
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Adam Meirowitz teaches in the formal theory sequence.  He is primarily interested in game theory with applications to the study of information and preference aggregation.  Research topics include deliberation, electoral accountability, protests, bargaining and militarization.  He has published in the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, The American Political Science Review,  The American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, The Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior and Social Choice and Welfare among others.
 
Kristopher Ramsay
Associate Professor
Corwin Hall 038 | Department of Politics | Princeton University | Princeton, NJ 08544
p: 609-258-2960
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Kristopher Ramsay teaches in the subfields of international relations and formal theory and quantitative methods.  He is a theorist whose research focuses on the strategy of conflict, causes of war, and the role of institutions in shaping peace.  He has published articles in International Organization, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and World Politics, among others. 


RESEARCH SPECIALIST
 
Jonathan Olmsted
Senior Research Specialist
Corwin Hall 235B | Department of Politics | Princeton University | Princeton, NJ 08544
p: 609-258-6202 
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Jonathan Olmsted is a Senior Research Specialist in the Department of Politics. His background is in social science and scientific computing. He joined the department in the Winter of 2013 and is still finishing his PhD in Political Science at the University of Rochester. On the political science side of things, his work focused on structural models, Bayesian inference, and measurement. On the computing side, he is interested in bringing the many faces of high-performance computing to social science researchers.


POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

Kentaro Hirose
Postdoctoral Fellow
Corwin Hall 028 | Department of Politics | Princeton University | Princeton, NJ 08544
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Kentaro Hirose is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Formal and Quantitative Methods in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. His dissertation develops game theoretical models to analyze military threats and applies Bayesian hidden Markov switching models to explain unobservable threats to use force.
 
Carlo Prato
Postdoctoral Fellow
Corwin Hall 028 | Department of Politics | Princeton University | Princeton, NJ 08544
p: 609-258-9867
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Carlo Prato received his PhD in economics from Northwestern University in June, after obtaining a BA (2004) and a MSc (2006) in economic and social sciences from Bocconi University. He is an Assistant Professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, currently on leave to spend the 2012-2013 academic year as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Politics at Princeton University. His research interests lie at the intersection between political science and economics. He employs game theoretical models to study how different types of political institutions affect the alignment of interests between voters and politicians, and the resulting policy outcomes.
 
 
GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWS

Graeme Blair
Graduate Student Fellow
Corwin Hall 130 | Department of Politics | Princeton University | Princeton, NJ 08544
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Graeme Blair is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, and studies oil rent distribution bargains and they shape civil wars with a focus on West Africa. He also studies why civilians support armed groups in contexts from Nigeria to Afghanistan, and methods for asking sensitive survey questions. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science and Political Analysis, won the 2013 Pi Sigma Alpha Award from the MPSA, and is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the International Growth Centre, and anonymous donors.
 
Peter Buisseret
Graduate Student Fellow
Corwin Hall 130 | Department of Politics | Princeton University | Princeton, NJ 08544
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Peter is a fourth year student in the Politics Department, with research interests in political economy, formal theory, and comparative politics. He has written on parliamentary and presidential government, electoral competition under run-off rules, and clientelist politics in developing countries. In 2010, Peter was the inaugural winner of the Cora Maas award for Best Teaching Assistant, at the Summer School in Methods and Techniques, hosted by the European Consortium for Political Research. Peter received his undergraduate degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford, and worked for JPMorgan for two years before coming to Princeton. 
 
Jidong Chen
Graduate Student Fellow
Corwin Hall 130 | Department of Politics | Princeton University | Princeton, NJ 08544
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Jidong Chen is a PhD student (since 2009) in formal theory and comparative political economy. He develops game-theoretic models and empirical methods to study information and preference aggregation in different institutions. He is also interested in development issues from a comparative perspective, as well as interactions between governments and markets with a focus on regulation. Jidong’s current projects include: (1) Deliberations before Agenda Setting; (2) Deregulate to Control-Autonomy Design in Authoritarian Regimes; (3) as well as a series of papers with his co-author Ming Yang (Duke University) that apply “rational inattention” to study how bounded rational individuals strategically and flexibly acquire information with applications in political economy, institutional analysis and international relations.
 
In Song Kim
Graduate Student Fellow
Corwin Hall 130 | Department of Politics | Princeton University | Princeton, NJ 08544
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In Song Kim is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Politics, Princeton University, where he received a Harold W. Dodds Fellowship for 2012-2013. His research is in the area of International Political Economy, Formal and Quantitative Methodology. Research topics include international political economy with heterogeneous firms, trade-talks among democratic nations, and the development of statistical methods for analyzing panel data.
 
Carlos Velasco Rivera
Graduate Student Fellow
Corwin Hall 130 | Department of Politics | Princeton University | Princeton, NJ 08544
email                                                                                                                                                                         (Website)                                                                                                                                                            Carlos Velasco Rivera is a PhD candidate in Politics.  His research interests include: the electoral effects of public policies, the reproduction and survival of elites, structural estimation, and causal inference.  While at Princeton he has taught an introductory course in quantitative analysis at the Woodrow Wilson School’s Junior Summer Institute, and served as a preceptor for Quantitative Analysis and Politics (undergraduate) and Quantitative Analysis II (graduate).

ALUMNI

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
 
Brett Bensen (2010-2011)
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies
Vanderbilt University
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Serra Boranbay (2009-2010)
Post-Doctoral Research
University of Mannheim
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Hifeng Huang (2009-2010)
Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of California - Merced
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Marc Ratkovic (2010-2012)
Lecturer, Department of Politics at Princeton University
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Yuki Takagi (2011-2012)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

 
GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWS
 
Avidit Acharya
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Economics
University of Rochester
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Stuart Jordan
Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of Rochester
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Dustin Tingley
Assistant Professor of Government
Harvard University
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Teppei Yamamoto
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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