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Assistant Professor of Political Science

Curriculum Vitae

Joe Ornstein is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the SPIA. He earned his PhD from the University of Michigan in 2018, and has previously held positions at the Brookings Institution and Washington University in St. Louis. His research and teaching focuses on statistical methodology, computational social science, and urban politics. He has published articles in the American Political Science Review, Political Analysis, Political Science Research and Methods, the American Journal of Public Health, Public Choice, and the Journal of Theoretical Politics, among other outlets.

Education
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  • PhD, University of Michigan, Political Science, 2018
  • BA, Dartmouth College, Mathematics & Social Sciences, 2009

Areas of Expertise −+

  • Methodology
  • State & Local Government

Honors, Awards, and Achievements −+

  • Evan Ringquist Award, Midwest Political Science Association (2023)
  • Gosnell Prize, Society for Political Methodology (2022)
  • ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention (2019)

Research Interests −+

  • Computational Social Science
  • Text as Data
  • Causal Inference

Selected Publications −+

Ornstein, Joseph T. (2025). 鈥淧robabilistic Record Linkage Using Pretrained Text Embeddings鈥�. Political Analysis, First View, 1-12.

Ornstein, Joseph T., Elise N Blasingame, and Jake S. Truscott (2025). 鈥淗ow to Train Your Stochastic Parrot: Large Language Models for Political Texts鈥�. Political Science Research and Methods 13(2): 264-281.

Blasingame, Elise N, Christina L. Boyd, Roberto F. Carlos, Joseph T. Ornstein (2024). 鈥淗ow the Trump Administrations鈥� Quota Policy Transformed Immigration Judging鈥�. American Political Science Review 118(4): 1688-1703.

Ornstein, Joseph T. (2020). 鈥淪tacked Regression and Poststratification鈥�. Political Analysis 28: 293-301.

Joseph Ornstein

Joseph Ornstein

Assistant Professor of Political Science

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