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Director

Alan Gerber graduated from Yale University (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT. He is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of American Politics at Yale University where he teaches courses on experimental methods, statistics, and American politics. His current research focuses on the application of experimental methods to the study of campaign communications, and he has designed and performed experimental evaluations of many campaigns and fundraising programs, both partisan and non-partisan in nature. His experimental research has appeared in numerous academic journals including the leading journals in political science: the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics, as well as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. He currently serves as an editor of the Quarterly Journal of Political Science. He has received various academic honors and awards, including the Heinz Eulau Award for the best article in the American Political Science Review (2002), and was selected to be a fellow-in-residence at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (2004-2005).

Research Fellows 2008-2009

Colin Moore (ABD Harvard University), is a Postgraduate Associate at the Yale Center for the Study of American Politics and Lecturer with the Department of Political Science. His research focuses on American political development, public bureaucracies, and the theoretical and historical analysis of institutional change. He is especially interested in how international commitments and activities have influenced domestic institutions. His dissertation examined the acquisition and governance of overseas colonies after the Spanish-American War as a formative moment in American state development. Other projects include a study (with Daniel P. Carpenter) of the use of mass petitioning as a recruitment tool in the early American republic.

Michael Murakami (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 2008) is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale Center for the Study of American Politics and Lecturer with the Department of Political Science. His research focuses on political behavior and psychology in the American context, Congress, research methods, and race & ethnic politics. He is particularly interested in how individuals manage multiple and potentially conflicting social identities, and how ideology and partisanship affect the career choices of politicians. In 2008, he was an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, and was recently the recipient of APSA's Heinz Eulau Award for his work on the political assimilation of Hispanic immigrants. His work has appeared in the Perspectives on Politics, PS: Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Critical Review. (Web site: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~mhm2/index.html)

Affiliated Yale Faculty 2008-2009

John Bullock

Daniel Butler

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