Brandeis University
Location
Waltham, MA | United States
Job description
Professor Amber Spry seeks a graduate research assistant with experience in quantitative data analysis to support a project on social group identity in United States politics. The RA will assist with preliminary data analysis for a survey experiment measuring the impact of identity (race, gender, ideology, religion) on political attitudes and behaviors. The RA should be skilled in data analysis and able to perform tasks such as data visualization, creating tables and figures, multivariate regression analysis, other advanced forms of quantitative analysis, and data manipulation in R. The RA may also assist with writing literature reviews for publications related to the project, and should possess basic knowledge of causal inference and intergroup behavior in United States politics. This project will be of interest to graduate students whose work engages political science, identity politics, gender and womenâ™s studies, and related disciplines.
This opportunity is for remote work and will involve occasional zoom meetings, but the RA will not be required to work from location on the Brandeis campus.
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About Brandeis University
As a medium-sized private research university with global reach, we are dedicated to first-rate undergraduate education while making groundbreaking discoveries. Four major academic units with 3,600 undergraduates and 2,050 graduate students comprise the University: the College of Arts and Sciences, the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, the International Business School, and the Rabb School of Continuing Studies. In 1985, Brandeis was elected to membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU), which represents the 62 leading research universities in the United States and Canada. Brandeis has been ranked among the top 35 national universities by U.S. News & World Report every year since the rankings’ inception. Our 235-acre campus is located in the suburbs of Boston, a global hub for higher education and innovation. Our faculty are leaders in their fields, as passionate about teaching and mentorship as they are about pushing the boundaries of knowledge. Our students are motivated, compassionate, curious and open to exploring new and challenging experiences. Brandeis was founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian university under the sponsorship of th ... e American Jewish community to embody its highest ethical and cultural values and to express its gratitude to the United States through the traditional Jewish commitment to education. By being a nonsectarian university that welcomes students, teachers and staff of every nationality, religion and orientation, Brandeis renews the American heritage of cultural diversity, equal access to opportunity and freedom of expression.
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