Professors Avital Livny and Stephen Chaudoin of the Department of Political Science have been selected as our 2017-2018 Linowes Fellows. These two outstanding scholars were selected from a very competitive field to work at the Cline Center with our data, research staff, and interns.
Professor Livny will continue work on the Composition of Religious and Ethnic Groups (CREG) project. Her team is integrating dozens of censuses and thousands of surveys into a high-quality dynamic global dataset of religious and ethnic populations. Her work will also enrich with existing datasets on the political and socio-economic status of these groups.
Professor Chaudoin will be using our Global News Archive and text-analytic technologies from our event data projects to analyze the dynamics of international law in nearly real time. His initial effort will focus on actors contending over the Filipino ‘war on drugs.’ Ultimately, he aims to develop real-time ‘seismographs’ that track events, media coverage, and citizen reactions related to international law and human rights.
Linowes Fellows are supported by the generosity of Prof. David F. Linowes (1917-2007) and his family.