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Education
  • Stanford University
       Ph.D. Communication (sub field: Political Communication), Expected 2011
       M.A. Communication, Expected 2010
       M.S. Statistics, Expected 2011
  • Coursework in Statistics, and Political Science at Harvard University, MA.
  • B.S. Computer Science, Rutgers College, New Brunswick, NJ.
Conference Papers and Presentations
  • Gaurav Sood, Jon Krosnick, and Daniel Schneider. Impact of Satire in Television News: Differential Impact on the Usual Audience and on Other Viewers. APSA. September 2010. Washington D.C.
  • Gaurav Sood, and Ken Cor. Guessing the Effect? - Effect of guessing on experimental inference. PolMeth. July 2010. Iowa City.
  • Robert C. Luskin, and Gaurav Sood. Worse than Ignorant: Causes and Consequences of Misinformation. ISPP. July 2010. San Francisco.
  • Sean Westwood, and Gaurav Sood. Assessing quality of deliberation and its consequences. ICA. June 2010. Singapore.
  • Nuri Kim, Alice Siu, and Gaurav Sood. Minority Report: Impact of Opinion Minorities on Deliberation. ICA. June 2010. Singapore.
  • Gaurav Sood, and Jon Krosnick. Mode effects in Overt Racism Measures: Evidence from 2008 ANES. AAPOR. May 2010. Chicago.
  • Philip Garland, Tobey Stark, Gaurav Sood, Caroline Roberts, and Jon Krosnick. A New Look at Racism in America: Evidence from National Surveys. SPSP, Las Vegas, Nevada. 2010.
  • Robert C. Luskin, Gaurav Sood, Nuri Kim, and James Fishkin. Deliberation and Learning: Evidence from Deliberative Polls. APSA. September 2009. Montreal; ECPR. September 2009. Potsdam, Germany.
Under peer-review
  • Gaurav Sood and Jon Krosnick. Taking Stereotype Measures at the Face?: Differences between Orally and Confidentially Administered Stereotype Measures
  • Gaurav Sood, Jon Krosnick, and Daniel Schneider. Impact of Satire in Television News: Differential Impact on the Usual Audience and on Other Viewers
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
Research Assistant
Advisor: James Fishkin
Project: Center for Deliberative Democracy

2004 – 2006
Research Assistant
Advisor: Jane Fountain
Project: Women in the Information Age

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?