Education
- Stanford University
Ph.D. Communication (sub field: Political Communication), Expected 2011
M.A. Communication, Expected 2010
M.A. Political Science, Expected 2010
- Coursework in Statistics, and Political Science at Harvard University, MA.
- B.S. Computer Science (major GPA 3.7), Rutgers College, New Brunswick, NJ.
Conference Papers and Presentations
- Assessing quality of deliberation and its consequences. ICA. May 2010. Singapore. (with Sean Westwood)
- Minority Report: Impact of Opinion Minorities on Deliberation. ICA. May 2010. Singapore. (with Nuri Kim, and Alice Siu)
- Mode effects in Overt Racism Measures: Evidence from 2008 ANES. AAPOR. May 2010. Chicago. (with Jon Krosnick)
- Differences in GSS and ANES. AAPOR 2010. Chicago.
- Garland, P., Stark, T., Roberts, C., Sood, G., & Krosnick, J.
A. (2010). A New Look at Racism in America: Evidence from National Surveys. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Las Vegas, Nevada.
- Deliberation and Learning: Evidence from Deliberative Polls. APSA 2009. Montreal; ECPR 2009, Potsdam. (with R.C. Luskin, Nuri Kim, and James Fishkin)
Under peer-review
- Impact of Satire in Television News: Differential Impact on the Usual Audience and on Other Viewers (with Jon Krosnick, and Daniel Schneider)
Working Papers
- Re-evaluating the prospects of prospect theory (with Jon Krosnick)
- Sources of Polling House bias in opinion polls: Evidence from Bush Approval ratings, and 2008 Election Cycle
Datasets
- Pakistan Election Dataset (2008)
- Military Experience of US presidents, and UK Prime Ministers
- George W. Bush Approval Ratings for his entire tenure
- 2008 US presidential election opinion polling data
Software
- Web Scraper for scraping opinion poll data. The software was written in PHP.
- Software to compute proximity to Single-Peakedness. Associated paper
Teaching Experience
- Teaching Assistant, Media, Culture, and Society, Stanford University, Winter 2009
- Teaching Assistant, Analysis of Presidential Campaigns, Stanford University, Fall 2008
- Teaching Assistant, Multimedia Production, Rutgers University, Summer 2000
Professional Service
- Assistant Editor, Political Communication (June 2008 - June 2009)
- Referee, Political Communication
- Referee, ICA Conference. (2008, 2010)
- Referee, Public Opinion Quarterly
- Referee, Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences
Other Experience
- Co-Director, Methods of Analysis in Social Sciences (July 2007 - Jan 2009)
Research Experience
2006 – Present
2004 – 2006
2003 - 2004
Research Assistant
Advisor: Leela Fernandes
‘Middle Class’ is a much mythologized socio-economic class in the modern Indian context. In business weeklies, and in politics - from ‘Shining India’ campaign to political rhetoric, the buoyant post-liberalization ‘new middle class’ is omnipresent. Wildly improbably figures of 300 million are often cited to describe its strength.
In 2003, Prof. Leela Fernandes was in midst of a book project devoted to understanding the scope, the state, the source, the mythology, the power, among other things, of this ‘new middle class’, and how it fed into policy making. As a research assistant for early part of the project, I helped find statistical data from the Indian census, World Bank, consumer data, etc. to help pin down some of the numbers behind this class. I also helped Prof. Fernandes find relevant newspapers and journals articles.
The project has since then resulted in a book, India's New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform.
See, What is so middle about middle class? for a brief response to the book, and some additional ways to look at the topic.
2003 – 2004
Advisor: Dr. Michael D. Shafer
Project: 'Democracy Project'
What led to the re-emergence of communist elites in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe? Did rapid economic liberalization or 'shock therapy' affect the political opportunity structure in favor of old elites? More broadly, does the pace of liberalization affect the propensity of old elites to hold on to power. More broadly still, how do elites maintain power during regime change and economic transition?
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