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Micah Altman

Curriculum Vitae

Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University

**** ********* ******, *********, ** 02138

Phone: 585-***-**** Fax: 617-***-****

E-mail: abox09@r.postjobfree.com

URL: http://futurelib.org

Education Harvard University 1999-2001

Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Government

California Institute of Technology 1998

Ph.D., Social Sciences

Brown University 1989

B.A., Magna Cum Laude*, Computer Science

B.A., Magna Cum Laude*, Ethics and Political Philosophy

[*Highest distinction awarded by the University]

Honors & Senior Fellow, Information Technology & Politics Section, 2011

Awards American Political Science Association

Best Research Software 2009

American Political Science Association (ITP) for BARD

Library Technology Excellence Award, Honorable Mention 2009

IGI Global

(for The Henry A. Murray Archive)

Listed in (Marquis) 2003-4, 2009

Who's Who in America, 57th, 58th, 63rd Edition

Best Research Software Award, 2005

American Political Science Association (ITP);

(for the VDC System)

Annual Meeting Enrichment Fund Award, 2001

Association of American Geographers

Best Political Science Research Website, 1999

(for The Record of American Democracy website)

Outstanding Dissertation Award, 1999

Western Political Science Association

(for the best political science dissertation)

Weaver Award, Representation and Electoral Systems Section, 1998

American Political Science Association

(for best paper presented at previous meeting)

Pre-doctoral Fellowship 1996-7

Harvard-MIT Research Training Group in Political Economy

John Randolf Haynes and Dora Haynes Fellowship 1995-6

Anna and James McDonnell Memorial Fellowship 1994-5

Phi Beta Kappa 1989

Sigma Xi

1989

Research Senior Research Scientist2006-Present

Positions Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University

Archival Director2007-PresentHenry A. Murray Research Archive, Harvard University

Associate Director1998-2009

Harvard-MIT Data Center, Harvard University

Director, Virtual Data Center Project 1999-2006Harvard University Library, Harvard University

Research Associate2001-2004

Center for Basic Research in Social Science, Harvard

University

Directed up to 16 FTE, including middle-managers,

statistical consultants, researchers, and technical staff

Provided IT, computing, archival, and research support

Developed new research computing and archival

software, services and facilities

Developed research publications, presentation, reports

and courses

Directly managed expert teams of researchers, software

developers, and IT professionals

Developed successful grant proposals; managed

sponsored projects, products, and budgets

Represented IQSS to a wide range internal and external

stakeholders

Provided expert consulting in: data archiving, data

preservation and management, information

confidentiality and security, statistical analysis,

software architecture, systems architecture, software

development

Conducted innovative research in digital libraries,

digital preservation, statistical methodology, and social

science that enhanced HMDC products, infrastructure

Non-Resident Senior Fellow 2010-Present

The Brookings Institution

Provide expert consulting on redistricting, statistics, software

development and architecture

Other Consultant1993-6

Positions A-Z Technology (Sole Proprietor)

Consulted for SGI, Cray Research, Silicon Works, Silicon

Studios

Member of the Technical Staff 1990-2

Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA

Developed courses, benchmarks, course-ware, on-site

consulting, for high performance computing, parallelization,

real time software, systems and network performance tuning.

Kevin Novak, Micah

Altman, Elana Broch, John M.

Refereed

1984-1990," Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

[producer],

Ann Arbor, MI: ICPSR [distributor]. (with Gary King, Bradley

Palmquist; Greg Adams, Kenneth Benoit, Claudine Gay,

Jeffrey B. Lewis, Russ Mayer, and Eric Reinhardt)

[Winner of the 1999 APSA Best Research Website Award]

Software Altman, Micah; Michael McDonald; with Andrew Jennings 2010-Present

Packages and David Zwarg; District Builder. Available through

Sourceforge.net.

Altman, Micah; Jonathan Crabtree; Nancy McGovern; Akio 2011-Present

Sone; SafeArchive Distributed TRAC Based Replication.

Available through SourceForge.

Altman, Micah, Jeff Gill and Michael McDonald, Accuracy: 2004-Present

An R-module for accurate statistical computing Available

through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and The

Comprehensive S Archive Network.

[Described in Journal of Statistical Software 21(1)]

Altman, Micah, and Michael McDonald, BARD: Better 2007-Present

Automated redistricting Available through The Comprehensive

R Archive Network

[Described in Journal of Statistical Software]

[Winner Best Research Software APSA (ITP)]

Altman, Micah, Leonid Andreev, Mark Diggory, Dan Kiskis, 2001-2006

and Akio Sone The Virtual Data Center: A digital library

system. Available through Sourceforge.) Winner of the

American Political Science Association's Best Research

Software Award

[Described in Social Science Computer Review 19(4)]

Altman, Micah, urn: An R (and S-Plus) module for repeated 2004, 2006

resampling without replacement. Available through The

Comprehensive R Archive Network and The Comprehensive S

Archive Network.

Altman, Micah, UNF: Packages for computing Universal 2004-2009

Numeric Fingerprints in R, S-Plus, Stata, and SAS. Available

through The Comprehensive R Archive Network, The

Comprehensive S Archive Network.

[Described in Advances in Systems, Computing Information Sciences

and Software Engineering 21(1)]

Grants & "A Policy Based Archival Replication System for Libraries, 2009-11

Awards Archives, and Museums", $823,016 IMLS (Senior Staff, IQSS

Project Director, Proposal Lead Author; collaborative proposal

with P.I.'s Gary King, Kenneth Bollen, Mark Abrahamson,

Nancy McGovern).

Public Mapping Project, $50,000, AWS In Education

2011

Grants, Amazon Inc. (Co-Director with Michael McDonald)

Citizen Redistricting Software Development, $125,000, 2011

Sloan Foundation (co-author, & consultant)

"Citizen Mapping Project", $222,000, Sloan Foundation (co- 2009-10

Project Director with Michael McDonald; Co-Authors:

Thomas Mann, Norman Ornstein).

Bibliographic Knowledge Network, $1,211,433, National 2008-11

Science Foundation; (Senior Staff; Proposal Co-Author; and

IQSS Project Director)

"Extension to The Digital Social Science Acquisitions and 2009-10

Preservation Partnership", $274,832 Library of Congress,

(Senior Staff, Proposal Co-Author and HMDC Project

Director, by P.I. Myron Gutmann, with Mark Abrahamson,

Ken Bollen, Gary King).

"Extension to The Digital Social Science Acquisitions and 2007-9

Preservation Partnership", $710,000 Library of Congress,

(Senior Staff, Proposal Co-Author and HMDC Project

Director, by P.I. Myron Gutmann, with Mark Abrahamson,

Ken Bollen, Gary King).

"The Digital Social Science Acquisitions and Preservation 2005-7

Partnership", $2,037,595 Library of Congress, (Senior Staff,

Proposal Co-Author and HMDC Project Director, by P.I.

Myron Gutmann, with Mark Abrahamson, Ken Bollen, Gary

King).

"A Feasible Uniform Standard for Deep Citation of Social 2001-3

Science Data", $805,102, National Science Foundation, (Co-

Investigator, Proposal Co-Author, and Project Director; by P.I.

Gary King, with James Alt).

"An Operational Social Science Digital Library", $2,400,000, 1999-2003National Science Foundation (Co-Investigator, Proposal Co-

Author, and Project Director; by P.I. Sidney Verba, with Gary

King, Dale Flecker, Nancy Cline).

"Data Documentation Initiative Beta Test", $1,750, Inter- 1999

University Consortium for Political and Social Research, (Co-

Investigator and Proposal Co-Author; by P.I. Gary King, with

Michael McDonald, Michael Ting).

"

Geospatial Liboratory Project"Intel Corporation, (Co- 1998-2000

Investigator with Gary King, Susan Lee, Paul Bergen, David

Cobb, Arlene Olivero, Thomas Parris, and William Wei)

($150,000)

Media Coverage of DistrictBuilder and Public Mapping project in 2011

Contacts & U.S. News and World Report, Washington Post (3 times,

Coverage including op-ed); USA Today; NPR; Idaho Public Television;

C-SPAN; ComputerWorld and by over 40 regional presses

Interviewed in Crucial Redistricting Season Underway Jul 2011

Fire up the open source GIS software, Epoch Times

Quoted in Technology Gives Citizens a Say in Redistricting, Mar. 2011

U.S. News and World Report

Coverage of Redistricting Transparency Principles and 2010

DistrictBuilder Software in various sources including:

National Journal; Twin Cities Pioneer; and 23 other sources

Quoted in To the Mapmaker Go Limited Political Spoils, by Nov 2010

Carl Bialik, Wall Street Journal (blog)

Discussion of BARD software in Political Scene: Redrawing Jun 2010

Rhode Island s political map will cost $1.5 million, K. Gregg

and R. Edgar, The Providence Journal, June 7

Quoted in "Putting math problems in proper order", Jan 2010

Physorg.Com 11/17/2009, NewsRx 12/16; "Solution Search", Dec 2009

Jean Thilmany, Mechanical Engineering Magazine, Jan 2010; Nov 2009

discussing NSF funded joint project with AIM.

Source for "Of the Algorithms, by the Algorithms, for the Jan. 2009

Algorithms", by Chris Wilson, in Slate.

Discussion of redistricting session in "Legislative redistricting Mar. 2009

2010 ", by John Oliver Mason, in Philadelphia Jewish Voice.

Interview for "Elect IT: Technology and the Democratic Oct. 2008

Process", by Lindsay Wickman, in Certification Magazine.

Interview for "DIY Democracy", by William Baldwin, in Sep. 2008

Forbes.

Source for Poonam Khanna, for Computing Canada. Jul. 2005

Source for "Packing, Cracking, and Kidnapping", by Don Peck Feb. 2004

and Caitlin Casey, in Atlantic Monthly.

Professional Sponsored Research Panel Review Member

Service

Healthcare Delivery and Methodologies, SBIR Study Section, 2008-Present

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

[Frequent reviewer, eligible for continuous submission, 2010-

2012]

Information Technology Research Panel, 2000

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Editorial Responsibilities

Editorial Board, American Journal of Political Science 2009-Present

Editorial Board, Journal of Information Technology and 2006-Present

PoliticsEditorial Board, Journal of E-Government 2004-2006

Guest Editor, Journal of Statistical Software2006-2008

Contributing Editor, 2006-2008International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Guest Editor, Social Science Computer Review2004-2005

Expert Board/Committee Membership

Program Representative, National Digital Preservation2010-Present

Partners, Library of Congress

Coordinating Committee Member, National Digital

2011-Present

Stewardship Alliance

Steering Committee, Data Preservation Alliance for Social

2003-PresentScience

(Data-PASS)

DuraCloud Direct-to-Researcher (DTR) Advisory Group2011

-

Isolon Policy Institute Board2011

-

Advisory Board Timescapes Archive (University of Leeds) 2007-2010

Steering Committee, Data Documentation Initiative

1999-2003

Committee/Technical Working Group, ICPSR

Expert Panelist Participation

Data and Computational Research Expert s Meeting 2011

Sloan Foundation

Communicating National Science Foundation Science and 2010

Engineering Information to Data Users,

National Academies of Sciences

NSF Open Access Requirement Feasibility Study -- Policy 2010

Workshop, Johns Hopkins University & CLIR

Expert Panel, Project on Voting and Elections, Rappaport 2001

Institute, Kennedy School of Government

"Cyberinfrastructure and University Policy" (Invited 2008

Participant) Sponsored by NSF, Science Commons, and Ewing

Marion Kauffman Foundation, Washington

Professional Association & Conference Leadership

Various Positions, Information Technology and Politics 1999-Present

Section, APSA: President -- 2003-4; Program Chair -- 2002-3,

2004-5 (acting); Chair, Research/Teaching Web Site Award

Committees -- 2000-1, Software Awards Committee 2005-7;

Council Member -- 1999-2005

; Communication Committee

2008-9; Book Awards Committee 2009-11; Executive

Board/Long-Range Planning Committee 2009-Present

Member, Task Group on Data Citation Standards and 2011-2013

Practices, International Council for Science : Committee on

Data for Science and Technology

Program Committee, ORCID Participant Meeting 2011 2011

Program Committee, Toward Public Participation in 2011

Redistricting, Brookings Institution

Awards Committee, Research Software 2008-Present

Society for Political Methodology

Library Technology Collaborative Advisory Board IGI Global 2009-Present

Program Committee YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in 2008-2009

the United States Workshop (U. Mass., Amherst)

Program Committee; Session Chair, Social Sciences UseR! 2008

Coordinator, Working Group on Information and Technology 2007

in Global and Domestic Politics American Political Science

Association

Section Head, Information Technology & Politics Midwest 2006-2007,

Political Science Association 2011

Postgraduate-Scholar Sponsor

A. Okulicz-Kozaryn (2008-10), G. Barboza (2008), E. Sergenti

(2007,8), D. Brancati (2004,5), M. New (2003), Y. Mansury

(2002), A. Sone (1999), A. Asgeirdottir (2000), P. Brandt

(1999), B. Tamas (1999), A. Tarar (2002)

Expert Consulting

United States Department of Justice 2011-

Gerson-Lerhman Group Councils 2007-2011

Bio-Era (Bio Economic Research Associates) 2006

Texas Legislative Council (Redistricting Services); 2000

External Peer Reviewer

American Journal of Political Science (AJPS); American

Politics Research (APR); American Political Science Review

(APSR); Cartography and Information Science (CaGIS);

Chapman Hall (CRC); Computational Statistics and Data

Analysis (CSDA); Economic and Social Research Council

(ESRC); Educopia; Government and Policy (Environment and

Planning, C); Idea Group Publishing (IGP); International

Journal of Geographic Information Science (IJGIS);

International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information,

and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (CIS2

Studies Quarterly; Library Trends; Management Science;

National Science Foundation (NSF) Behavioral and Cognitive

Science (BCS) program; National Science Foundation (NSF)

Information Technology Research (ITR) program; National

Science Foundation (NSF) Methodology, Measurement and

Statistics (MMS) Program; National Science Foundation

(NSF) Social and Economic Sciences (SES) program; National

Institutes of Health (NIH), HDM SBIR; Network and Spatial

Economics (NETS); Political Analysis; Political Geography;

Political Research Quarterly; PS: Political Science and

Politics; Professional Geographer; State Politics and Policy

Quarterly (SPPQ); Social Science Computer Review (SSCR);

Theoretical Politics; The American Statistician; Wellcome

Trust; World Scientific Publishers

Professional affiliations:

ACM, American Statistical Association, APSA, IEEE, MWPA,

Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, PSA, WPS

University Planning Committee, 2010-2011

Service Harvard Workshop on Data Citation Principles

Planning Committee, Annual CGA Conference 2009-1011

Technical Committee, Center for Geographical Analysis 2007-Present

Speaker, Data Management Information Session 2011

Planning Committee, Harvard Digital Scholarship Summit 2010-2011

FASCS Security Advisory Committee 2009-2010

Invited Speaker, "Computers Beyond Computer Science" 2008

Harvard Technology Careers Conference Cambridge, MA

Invited Speaker, "Teaching with Online Data", 2005

Invited Speaker, Web Pedagogies Monthly Seminar: Derek

Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University

Invited Linking Data to Publications 2011

Speaking Society for Scholar Publishers Annual Meeting,

(Pre-Meeting Seminar)

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Invited Lecture for the Interactive Television Program in

Advanced Political Methodology (University of Illinois,

Chicago; University of Wisconsin, Madison; University of

Minnesota; Ohio-State University)

Invited Panelist, "Innovations in Web-Based Data 2001

Exploration" Annual ICPSR Organizational Representative

Meeting, Ann Arbor

"Providing Library Data Services Using the Virtual Data 2001

Center" (with Heather McMullen and Michael Krot) Invited

Lecture, International Federation of Library Associations

(IFLA), Boston

"Commentary on Manipulating Maps and Winning Elections, 2001

Invited Discussant, Annual Meeting of the American

Association of Geographers (AAG), New York, N.Y.

Invited Panelist, First FASTER Metadata Expert Workshop, 2000

Voorburg, Netherlands

"Measuring Compactness", Invited Lecture, National 1999

Conference of State Legislatures, 25th Meeting, Indianapolis

"Expert Meeting on Metadata Harvesting " (Invited Expert), 2000

Andrew W Mellon Foundation, New York, NY

Invited Panelist, Panel Data Collection and Dissemination 1999

Workshop, Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences,

Harvard U.

"The Geospatial Libororatory Project", Invited Lecture, GIS 1999

Colloquium Series, Harvard U, Cambridge

"Commentary" Invited Lecture. Bringing Democracy closer to 1999

voters -- Delimitation of Single Member Constituencies,

Lisbon

"Workshop on Social Science Data Archives", Invited Panelist, 1999

Digital Library Federation, Princeton, NJ

Teaching Elements of Research Data Management

(Workshop, IQSS, Harvard U.)

Software Development Management

(Workshop, IQSS, Harvard U.)

High Performance Computing for Social Sciences

(Workshop, IQSS, Harvard U.)

Managing Confidential Information in Research

(Professional Development Seminar; IQSS, Harvard U.)

Grant Writing Workshop

(Professional Development Seminar; Government Department,

Harvard U.)

Research Funding: Getting Started, Getting Funded

(APSA Annual Meeting Short Course)

Digital Curation

(Guest Lecturer, UNC, SILS)

Methods for Large-Scale Statistical Computing in the Social,

Behavioral and Health Sciences

(MIT IAP Short Course)

Topics in Quantitative Methods

(Gov2002, Guest Lecturer, Harvard U.)

An Overview of Pragmatic Statistical Computing: faster

analyses, larger scale, and more accurate results

(Short Course, APSA)

Creating a Politics Data Center

(Short Course, APSA)

Archiving, Cataloging and Distributing Data

(Short Course, IASSIST/IFDO)

Real-time Programming

(40 hour course)

Parallel Processing

(40 hour course)

Advanced Systems (and Network) Administration

(40 hour course)

Network Administration

(40 hour course)

Technical General technical proficiencies

Skills Expert in digital libraries.

Expert in digital preservation.

Expert in performance profiling and optimization.

Expert in statistical analysis

Proficient in statistical computation.

Proficient skills in numerical benchmarking.

Proficient in parallelization.

Proficient in systems administration.

Intermediate skills in software development

methodology: object-oriented design, agile

development methods

Intermediate skills in network administration

(Instructor for Network Admin certification classes).

Intermediate system security skills -- firewall setup,

penetration testing, host intrusion detection.

Intermediate skills in web site design and

implementation (HTML, CSS, DHTML, CGI). Basic

DBA and SQL skills.

Programming Languages and Operating Systems

(Year counts are based on continuous active employed use.)

Statistical Languages: Expert in R/S programming

skills (6 years, authored 6 CRAN modules), basic

programming skills in Stata, Gauss, JMP, SPSS, SAS.

Proficient in analysis in all of the above, and in

numerous other statistics, data-manipulation and GIS

systems.

Operating Systems: Experienced Senior Unix Systems

Administrator/IT Director (11 years total, Certified

IRIX Instructor for 3 years, 3 Years of HP-UX.

Intermediate Linux (5 years of RedHat Linux). Basic

Windows, OS X, and Netware administration skills.

General Programming Languages: Highly proficient in

Perl (9 years), intermediate in C (4 years), intermediate

programming skills in C++ (2 years), JavaScript (2

years), Bash (1 year), and FORTRAN (2 years). Basic

programming skills in Java (JSP), VBscript, PHP.

Technical Certifications & Training

Harvard ethics training in human research (HETHR)

NIH Protecting Human Research Participants

CITI Collaborative Institutional Training InitiativeCurricula completion (16 courses):

Curriculum for IRB Members, Curriculum for

Biomedical Research Investigators,Curriculum for

Social & Behavioral Research Investigators;

Curriculum for Undergraduate Students conducting no

more than minimal risk research; Good Clinical

Practice; Health Information Privacy and Security

(HIPS) for Clinical Investigators;Health Information

Privacy and Security (HIPS) for Clinicians ; Health

Information Privacy and Security (HIPS) for Clinical

Fundraisers; Health Information Privacy and Security

(HIPS) for Marketers; Biomedical Responsible

Conduct of Research; Social and Behavioral

Responsible Conduct of Research; Engineering

Conduct of Research; Physical Science Responsible

Conduct of Research; Responsible Conduct of Research

for Administrators

Selected Poster: Individual Ideology, Happiness, and the Welfare State 2011

Conference -- A Comparative Analysis (with Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn) (August)

Activity Roundtable: Redistricting Roundtable: Law and Politics in the

New Decade

Discussant: Isn t Anything Private Anymore

American Political Science Association Annual Conference

The SafeArchive System 2011

CNI Spring Membership Meeting

Presentation: DistrictBuilder, 2011

Moderator: Session II

Geospatial Collaboration: New Common Ground,

Center for Geographic Analysis

"Trustworthy Repository Criteria, Virtual Organizations, and 2010

Infrastructure

(Panel organizer and presenter)

The Dataverse Network and the SAFE-Archive System

(poster)

Library of Congress Digital Preservation Partners Meeting,

Washington, D.C

Public Mapping Project, (Software Demonstration) 2010

National Conference of State Legislatures Meeting, Providence

The Public Mapping Project 2010

Ignite Spatial, Boston

Managing Confidential Information in Social Science 2010

Library of Congress - Annual NDIIP Partners Meeting,

Washington, D.C.

"Collecting Digital Content Going Forward: Lessons Learned 2008

and New Initiatives" (panelist), Library of Congress - Annual

NDIIP Partners Meeting, Washington, D.C.

"Access to Distributed Collections: Issues and Solutions for 2008

Interoperability" (panelist), Library of Congress - Annual

NDIIP Partners Meeting, Washington, D.C.

"BARD: Better Automated Redistricting" (with Michael 2008

McDonald)

UseR!, Dortmund

Invited Participant 2008

Political Methodology Meeting, Ann Arbor

"Research Funding Opportunities and Data Resources 2008

Invited Poster Session, American Sociological Association,

Annual Meeting, Boston

Towards a Data Network for Integrated Social Science 2008

Research Digital Library Federation Spring Forum,

Minneapolis

Virtual Observatories and Research Collaboratories: 2008

Quantitative Social Science American Association for the

Advancement of Science, Boston

Georeferencing in the Social Sciences Harvard CGA 2008

Georeferencing Workshop, Harvard U, Cambridge

Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences Society of 2007

American Archivists, Chicago

Faculty Poster 2007

Political Methodology Meeting, Penn State

"Social Science Data Preservation and Dissemination" (poster) 2007

Advancing NSDL Networks -- NSDL 2007 Annual Meeting,

Arlington, V.A.

"Legal Agreements in Network and Consortia" (invited 2007

panelist and chair), Library of Congress - Annual NDIIP

Partners Meeting, Washington, D.C.

"Preserving Social Science Research Data" 2007

American Library Association, Washington, D.C.

"Approaches to Data Dissemination and Preservation" IASSIST 2007

2007, Montreal

"Data-PASS: Collaborating to Preserve At-Risk Data" (Panel) 2007

McDonald and Karin Mac Donald)

(APSA Theme Panel) APSA, Washington, D.C.

Chair "Participation in the Internet Era: New Technologies, 2005

New Hopes" APSA, Washington, D.C.

"Data-PASS Technical Architecture" Library of Congress - 2005

NDIIP Partners Meeting, Washington, D.C.

(Panelist) "Data Archives: Building a Partnership to Preserve 2005

the Future of Social Research"

Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association,

Philadelphia

Invited Participant. 2005

22nd Annual Summer Meeting of the Society for Political

Methodology, Tallahassee

"TheDataWeb/VDC Integration " (with Cavan Capps) 2005

IASSIST/IFDO, Edinburgh

References Caroline Arms,

(Formerly) Program Officer,

Office of Strategic Initiatives

Library of Congress

Peter K. Bol

Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and

Civilizations

Director, Center for Geographic Analysis

Harvard University

Jeff Gill,

Professor of Political Science,

Washington University, St. Louis

Gary King,

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Professor of Government

Director, Institute for Quantitative Social Science

Harvard UniversityJ. Morgan Kousser,

Professor of History and Social SciencesCalifornia Institute of Technology

Sidney Verba,

Carl H Pforzheimer University Professor

Harvard University

Additional Available from:References http://www.linkedin.com/profile/viewid=12424632

Mark Diggory

Head of U.S. Operations, @mire

Carol Hyman

President, Hy-Tec Consulting

Amy Pienta

Director, Acquisitions, ICPSR

William Wei

Executive Director, Asia Americas Alliances

Distinctions ErdOs Number: 5

Without H-Index (Google scholar): 13 (raw data 1,2)

Difference "National Leadership Award", given by Congressman

Tom DeLay, Majority Leader, on behalf of the National

Republican Congressional Committee (see

commentary)

Ordained Minister, Universal Life Church



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