Cyrus Samii is a PhD candidate concentrating in comparative politics and methodology.  He holds an MIA from Columbia University - SIPA and a BA from Tufts University.  He researches micro-level dynamics of civil wars and post-conflict reconstruction.  His field projects have been in Burundi, Cote d’Ivoire, Indonesia, Liberia, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.  He is the convener of the political science department causal inference reading group and works on methods for observational studies, missing data, field experiments, and social science measurement.  He is a graduate fellow with the Center for the Study of Development Strategies and the Applied Statistics Center, a statistical consultant for the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, and 2010-2011 fellow with the Yale University/MacMillan Center Program on Order, Conflict and Violence.

Teaching and Research Interests: Political and economic development; civil conflict; political behavior; survey research methods; program evaluation methods; causal inference.