Scott Williamson is a political scientist focused on the politics of the Middle East. His research addresses the persistence of authoritarian regimes, popular support for democracy and human rights, and attitudes toward refugees and immigrants. Scott s work has been published or accepted by academic journals including the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Peace Research, and the Journal of Experimental Political Science, as well as by outlets such as the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Washington Post. Scott received his PhD from Stanford University and his BA from Indiana University, and he was formerly a CASA fellow at the American University in Cairo.
Claire Adida is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at UC San Diego, as well as a faculty affiliate with the Policy Design and Evaluation Lab (PDEL), the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (CCIS), and the Stanford Immigration and Integration Policy Lab. Her research is in comparative politics: more specifically in the study of identity, immigration and inter-group cooperation and conflict.
Her work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Journal of Experimental Political Science, Economic Inquiry, Economics and Politics, the Journal of Population Economics, Cambridge University Press, and Harvard University Press.
Sarah Kreps started the lab to research the growing connections and potential disruptions at the intersection of technology and government, many of them related to artificial intelligence.
There’s a gap between technology and policy, according to Sarah Kreps.
To research the growing connections and potential disruptions at the intersection of technology and government – many of them related to artificial intelligence (AI) – Kreps, the John L. Wetherill Professor of Government, launched the Tech Policy Lab in 2020.
Engaging undergraduate researchers, graduate students and a postdoctoral fellow, the Tech Policy Lab examines how politics shapes the deployment of new technology that affects the lives of millions. Lab members also study ways technology can potentially interfere with domestic and international politics.
The research areas are broad and interdisciplinary, Kreps said, bringing together faculty and student researchers with backgrounds in computer science, epidemiology, information science and social sciences to study issues including COVID-19 vaccine preferences, misinformation in the political and medical space, and the potential uses and misuses of A