Weekly Zooming with Current Students….
Former Students
Our former Election Science undergraduates are now gainfully employed at Google, Facebook, Catalist, the Wall Street Journal, as well as with political parities, nonprofits, other news outlets, and Florida election offices; studying in PhD programs at UC Berkeley, University of Maryland, Florida State, UC San Diego, Penn State, as well as Georgetown, Emory, Yale, and Washington and Lee law schools; and interning at The Brennan Center, The Campaign Workshop, and many other organizations!
Some of our recent graduate students include:
Brian Amos, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wichita State University.
Peter Licari, PhD, is Managing Data Scientist for Morning Consult.
Lia Merivaki, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at Mississippi State University.
Enrijeta Shino, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Florida.
Faculty
Juan Gilbert
Juan Gilbert is the Andrew Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor, and the Department Chair of the Department of Computer Science & Information & Engineering. A computer scientist, he is a researcher, inventor, and educator, as well as a staunch advocate of diversity in the computing sciences. His research interests with respect to voting and elections include Human-Centered Computing, Electronic Voting (Prime III) and Research Alliance for Accessible Voting (RAAV). He leads the Human-Experience Research Lab at UF.
Michael McDonald
Michael P. McDonald is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. His research interests include elections, surveys, and statistical methodology. He has a distinguished academic record, as co-author of Numerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the Social Scientist and co-editor of The Marketplace of Democracy: Electoral Competition and American Politics. He has published thirty peer-reviewed articles and numerous other academic writings. He frequently comments on elections in the media and has written several opinion editorials for major newspapers.
Daniel A. Smith
Daniel Smith is Professor and Chair of Political Science at the University of Florida. He is the President of ElectionSmith, Inc., a political consulting firm, and is the past Chair of the State Politics and Policy Section of the American Political Science Association. His research mainly examines how political institutions affect political behavior across and within the American states. In addition to publishing numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, his authored and coauthored books include Tax Crusaders and the Politics of Direct Democracy (Routledge, 1998), Educated by Initiative (University of Michigan Press, 2004), and State and Local Politics: Institutions and Reform (4th edition, Cengage, 2015).