The Program in Quantitative Social Science is graduating its largest class ever, thirty-two majors and four minors. This is a remarkably large group of talented students, all of whom completed independent research projects during their fourth years on campus. QSS is a hands-on program, and student participation in research is a key aspect of the program's educational mission. Ten QSS majors in the Class of 2019 (approximately...
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With her advisor Yusaku Horiuchi, who is Professor of Government at Dartmouth College and a member of the Steering Committee of the Program in Quantitative Social Science, Jennifer Wu '19 recently presented a paper at a Yale University workshop on Japanese Politics and...
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As part of their graduation requirements, all students majoring in Quantitative Social Science must complete and present an independent research project. These projects are either honors theses or one quarter projects. This year, ten QSS students have written theses, and they are defending their research this week and next. All QSS thesis defenses are public, and the presentation schedule for Spring 2019 is as follows.
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Genna Liu and Jennifer Wu, both members of the Class of 2019 at Dartmouth College who are writing honors theses in the Program in Quantitative Social Science recently presented their projects at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. This Chicago conference brings together faculty from across the country who are working on contemporary...
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With several other co-authors, QSS Steering Committee Members John Carey and Yusaku Horiuchi, along with a QSS pre-doctoral fellow Katie Clayton, recently published “Who wants to hire a more diverse faculty? A conjoint analysis of faculty and student preferences for...
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Jun Zhao, who has been a postdoctoral fellow in the Program in Quantitative Social Science (QSS) since July 2017, recently accepted a tenure track position in the Department of Sociology at Georgia State University. Prior to joining QSS, where she teaches a class in network analysis, Jun completed her doctorate at the University of Georgia in 2017....
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Yusaku Horiuchi, QSS Steering Committee member, Professor of Government and Mitsui Professor of Japanese Studies, was recently invited by Chiba University in Japan to give a special lecture, "Introduction to Data Science." About 80 first-year students in the college of liberal arts and sciences attended. The talk covered Professor Horiuchi's recent articles and various ways to collect and analyze quantitative data to study...
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Program in Quantitative Social Science (QSS) faculty members John Carey and Yusaku Horiuchi and QSS pre-doctoral fellow Katie Clayton gave a presentation on September 27, 2018, at a Harvard University...
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Katie Clayton, currently a pre-doctoral student in the Program in Quantitative Social Science at Dartmouth College, recently presented a paper at the annual conference of the American Political Science Association. Her paper, titled "An Immigration Consensus? Social Contact and Immigrant Attribute Preferences in France," co-authored with Yusaku Horiuchi...
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The Program in Quantitative Social Science (QSS) at Dartmouth College seeks a scholar for a tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor, to be appointed as early as July 1, 2020. QSS is an interdisciplinary program that integrates modern statistical, computational, and mathematical tools with social science. We welcome applications from scholars working in applied methods whose work advances knowledge in social science broadly construed. Applicants should demonstrate strong, applied...
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