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Program in Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
Degree Programs:
Full-Time/Part-Time: Free-Standing M.A.
Director (QMSS):
Christopher
Charles
Weiss,
Ph.D.
420 West 118th Street, MC 3355
Suite 370, International Affairs Building
New York,
NY
10027
Tel:
212.854.7559
e-mail:cw2036@columbia.edu
Faculty
| Peter
Bearman:
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| Cole Professor of Social Science,
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
1985 |
| Interests:
Comparative and historical sociology, social networks, social theory. Is currently investigating the social determinants of the autism epidemic. Current projects also include an ethnographic study of the funeral industry and, with support from the American Legacy Foundation, an investigation of the social and economic consequences of tobacco control policy. |
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| Niall
Bolger:
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| Professor (Psychology),
Ph.D.,
Cornell,
1987 |
| Interests:
Adjustment processes in close relationships, personality processes in patterns of behavior, emotion, and physiology; statistical methods for analyzing longitudinal and multilevel data |
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| Marianna
Colacelli:
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| Assistant Professor (Economics, Barnard),
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
2005 |
| Interests:
Macroeconomics, monetary theory, international trade, development economics |
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| Tanisha
Fazal:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
Stanford,
2001 |
| Interests:
International security, international relations theory, sovereignty, international law, organization theory |
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| Page
Fortna:
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| Associate Professor (Political Science),
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
1998 |
| Interests:
International politics, war termination, cooperation and security, and research methods |
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| Andrew
Gelman:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
1990 |
| Interests:
Public opinion, voting behavior, public policy, public health, statistical methodology |
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| Lucy
Goodhart:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
2001 |
| Interests:
Comparative institutions, W. European and EU politics, monetary policy and technocratic delegation, voting behavior, and political parties |
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| Morris
Holbrook:
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| William T. Dillard Professor of Marketing (Business),
Ph.D.,
Columbia,
1975 |
| Interests:
Validity of perceptual and preference mapping, consumption experiences, nostalgia, communication effects, semiotics, and hermeneutics in marketing |
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| Nicole
Marwell:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Chicago,
2000 |
| Interests:
Latino studies, the Caribbean |
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| William
McAllister:
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| Senior Research Fellow (ISERP),
Ph.D.,
Chicago,
1986 |
| Interests:
Political elites; methods for analyzing biographical information; homelessness and homeless policymaking; and the importance of time and change in explaining political phenomena |
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| Randall
Reback:
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| Assistant Professor (Economics, Barnard),
Ph.D.,
Michigan,
2003 |
| Interests:
Education policy and public finance |
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| Sanjay
Reddy:
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| Assistant Professor (Economics, Barnard),
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
2000 |
| Interests:
Development economics, international economics, global poverty and inequality estimates, capability-based inter-country poverty comparisons, and the theory of economic and social measurement generally |
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| Andrew
Rundle:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Columbia,
2000 |
| Interests:
Physical activity and body weight, sedentary lifestyles and body weight as risk factors for cancer development |
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| Robert
Y.
Shapiro:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Chicago,
1982 |
| Interests:
Public opinion, political leadership, policy-making, the mass media, political participation |
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| Seymour
Spilerman:
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| Professor of Sociology and Public Health,
Ph.D.,
Johns Hopkins,
1968 |
| Interests:
Structure of work careers in corporate settings, focusing on the ways that educational attainment, labor market experience, race and gender influence work career features |
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| Julien
Teitler:
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| Associate Professor of Social Work,
Ph.D.,
Pennsylvania,
1996 |
| Interests:
Family demography, social inequality and research methods; adolescent transitions, effects of parent behaviors on children, social inequality, family policy, welfare reform, research methods |
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| Miguel
Urquiola:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D,
California (Berkeley),
2000 |
| Interests:
Economic development, Chile, Bolivia |
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| Bogdan
Vasi:
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| Assistant Professor (Psychology),
Ph.D.,
Cornell,
2005 |
| Interests:
Research methods, consumerism, collective action, and social movements; adoption and implementation of local programs to address global climate change; development of the wind energy industry; strategies for coping with tragedies of the commons |
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| Tor
Wager:
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| Assistant Professor (Psychology),
Ph.D.,
Michigan,
2003 |
| Interests:
Neural and psychological bases of cognitive and affective control, individual differences in selective attention, inhibition, task switching, and other executive processes, mechanisms of emotion and affect regulation, the relationship between affective regulation and cognitive control |
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| David
Weiman:
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| Professor (Economics, Barnard),
Ph.D.,
Stanford,
1984 |
| Interests:
Political economy of the American South to 1945, comparative urban history and regional development, historical development of the banking and telecommunications industries, U.S. postsecondary education with a focus on community colleges, economic and social impacts of mass incarceration, history of economic thought, political economy |
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| Christopher
Charles
Weiss:
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| Lecturer and Director, Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences,
Ph.D.,
Pennsylvania |
| Interests:
Sociology of education; adolescence; urban studies |
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