cfariss.com - Christopher J. Fariss

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I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Faculty Associate in the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan . Prior to beginning these appointments, I was the Jeffrey L. Hyde and Sharon D. Hyde and Political Science Board of Visitors Early Career Professor in Political Science in the Department of Political Science at Penn State University . I am also an Affiliated Scholar at the Security and Political Economy (SPEC) Lab at the University of Southern

My core research focuses on the politics and measurement of human rights, discrimination, violence, and repression. I use computational methods to understand why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods and research design. These methodological tools, essential for analyzing data at massive s

Below you will find links to my publications , working papers , teaching material , several Dataverse archives where you can access replication data and project datasets, and links to human rights data generated from several measurement projects. Preprints for some published and unpublished articles are availabe at arxiv , OSF , or SSRN . For more information about my research, teaching, and mentoring, please see my CV and research statement , and teaching and mentoring statement .

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