KELSEY SHOUB
ABOUT
I am an associate professor of public policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the associate director of the Computational Social Science Initiative. Additionally, I am a faculty affiliate of the Data Analytics and Computational Social Science program and on the steering committee of the Center for Justice, Law, and Societies. Additionally, I am a faculty affiliate at the Center for Effective Lawmaking, where I was previously a post-doctoral research associate located at the University of Virginia.
Broadly, my research addresses three questions: (1) How do descriptive identities (e.g., race and gender) of officials and civilians intersect with context, such as policy and institutions, to shape outcomes; (2) How does the public respond to and evaluate policies and events stemming from them; and (3) How do policy and political elites use language and structure discussions? I do so through a focus on race, gender, and policing; and the language used by elites. To explore these questions, I collect and analyze both administrative and survey data, using statistical and machine learning techniques, complemented with experimental methods.
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I am a co-author of Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Stops Tell Us About Policing and Race (Cambridge University Press, 2018, co-winner of the C. Herman Pritchett Book Award from the American Political Science Association Section on Law and Courts). Additionally, my work has appeared in Science Advances, the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, among others.
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I earned my Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2018, where I specialized in both American Politics and Political Methodology. I earned my B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy, with Honors from The Ohio State University in May 2013, and I earned my M.A. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in August 2015.
For more information, see my CV, and explore the links above on my research, teaching, and advice for students.
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Please contact me by email at kshoub[at]umass.edu.
