Experimental Politics Lab Membership
We are a social science research group using experimental methods to address questions about political attitudes, beliefs, and behavior. You can learn about our members here.
Patrick Kraft
Patrick is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the Juan March Institute of Social Sciences at University Carlos III of Madrid as well as an affiliated faculty in political science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
His research focuses on the psychological underpinnings of political attitudes, reasoning, and behavior. He is especially interested in the development and application of new statistical methods in the area of political psychology. For example, he has used quantitative text analysis to study how citizens discuss and justify their political preferences and beliefs in open-ended survey responses as well as online discussions.
Shin Young Park
Shin Young Park is a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
She is interested in the areas of political behavior and public opinion among different racial /ethnic groups and immigrants. She's currently working on American nativism and its political impact among native/foreign-born citizens.
Nicholas R. Davis
Nicholas is the research director for the Milwaukee-based Argosy Foundation. He received his PhD in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
His political science research spans several substantive areas, including persistent authoritarianism and comparative democratization, the political economy of natural disasters, and the politics of race and ethnicity. His diverse research agenda employs a variety of data collection and measurement techniques and advanced statistical methods which tend to be underutilized in quantitative political science.
Enes Ayasli
Enes is a PhD candidate in the department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
His research interests are diverse, but he mainly studies political attitudes and behaviors toward migration by using experimental methods. His dissertation broadly focuses on attitudes toward migrants and respective voting behavior in host countries. It examines how the political balance of power affects such outcomes drawing on a survey experiment in Turkey. Prior to joining UWM, Enes was a research fellow at the Migration Research Center at Koc University in Turkey.
Amanda Heideman
Amanda is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She received her PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
As an interdisciplinary scholar, her research agenda is diverse and draws on the fields of political science, public policy and administration, and criminal justice and criminology. Broadly, her substantive research interests include urban politics and governance, political attitudes and behavior, and (in)equality in political representation and policy outcomes.
Taraleigh Davis
Taraleigh is PhD Candidate in Political Science studying American politics with a focus on judicial politics and quantitative methodology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Her dissertation focuses on mapping and understanding the U.S.
Supreme Court’s shadow docket. Drawing on an original database of
the emergency docket, and a pre-registered survey experiment, it
analyzes the Supreme Court’s “third shift” and its impact on
policy, precedent, and public opinion. In addition to her
dissertation, her research interests broadly focus on U.S. Supreme
Court decision making, the judicial process, survey experiments,
and text analysis.
She been analyzing oral argument in the United States Supreme
Court using text as data to uncover potential systematic
differences across justices.
Jason Neumeyer
Jason is a survey specialist with Polco, working with the National Research Center (NRC) to help cities and municipalities gather, analyze, and use data to drive local policy. He also teaches in the Political Science Department at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. He received his M.A. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2020.
His interests are in American institutions, political behavior, and political methodology. His active research includes an extension of his Master's thesis, which investigates the impacts of different types of ideology (operational versus symbolic) on political participation. He is also collaborating with a current student to analyze voter turnout patterns across the University of Wisconsin System.
Nasrin Haghighat Chaleshtari
Nasrin is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Latin America’s literature, the application of Machin Translation (MT) and Translation Memory (TM), and political sociology focusing on the sociology of consumption in Iran are her research interests. Her studies on diaspora and theories of immigration culminated into a translation of a book titled “Iranian in London: Voices of Exile” and “Iranian Diaspora Identities” (under translation).
ChanSong Kim
ChanSong Kim is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He received his Master degree from the Department of Political Science at the Sogang University in South Korea.
His research focuses on the political behavior/attitude and public opinion. Especially, his substantive research interests include Asian American politics and political participation among racial minorities.