About

I am a social scientist, data scientist, community-engaged scholar, and research director with 20+ years of experience teaching, leading, and managing research and data science teams. My work centers on action-based research, using the tools of data science to promote accountable governance, make visible racial and other social inequities, and impact public policy and movement building.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Ancient history
• History
• Demography
• Criminology

Selected publications

• Confederate monuments and the history of lynching in the American South: An empirical examination

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2021 · 55 citations

  • Sociology
  • Criminology
  • History

  The present work interrogates the history of Confederate memorializations by examining the relationship between these memorializations and lynching, an explicitly racist act of violence. We obtained and merged data on Confederate memorializations at the county level and lynching victims, also at the county level. We find that the number of lynching victims in a county is a positive and significant predictor of the number of Confederate memorializations in that county, even after controlling for relevant covariates. This finding provides concrete, quantitative, and historically and geographically situated evidence consistent with the position that Confederate memorializations reflect a racist history, one marred by intentions to terrorize and intimidate Black Americans in response to Black progress.

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• Charlottesville Child Welfare Study

  2019-02-01

  article
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• Charlottesville Foster Care Study

  2019-11-20

  article
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• Expanding Research Data Services - More Than Data Management Plans

  2016-01-01

  articleSenior author
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• Interactive Sessions Sample Data

  OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) · 2016-11-11

  articleSenior author
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• Supporting Research Workflows in Data Science

  OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) · 2016-08-10

  article

  This publicly accessible site contains materials related to the Workshop on Supporting Research Workflows in Data Science (Nov, 11, 2016 at the University of Virginia).

  Publisher

• Bigger on the inside: building Research Data Services at the University of Virginia

  Insights the UKSG journal · 2015-07-07 · 9 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  Every story has a beginning, where the narrator chooses to start, though this is rarely the genesis. This story begins with the launch of the University of Virginia Library's new Research Data Services unit in October 2013. Born from the conjoining of a data management team and a data analysis team, Research Data Services expanded to encompass data discovery and acquisitions, research software support, and new expertise in the use of restricted data. Our purpose is to respond to the challenges created by the growing ubiquity and scale of data by helping researchers acquire, analyze, manage, and archive these resources. We have made serious strides toward becoming ‘the face of data services at U.Va.’ This article tells a bit of our story so far, relays some early challenges and how we've responded to them, outlines several initial successes, and summarizes a few lessons going forward.

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• survey_ads_2000v1.tab

  Harvard Dataverse · 2015-01-01

  datasetOpen access1st authorCorresponding
  PublisherDOI

• connection_analysis.do

  Harvard Dataverse · 2015-01-01

  datasetOpen access1st authorCorresponding
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• Making a Connection

  Harvard Dataverse · 2015-09-13

  datasetOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  Replication data for: Michele P. Claibourn. 2008. "Making a Connection: Repetition in Campaigns and the Development of Candidate-Issue Connections." Journal of Politics 70(4): 1142-1159. 1. connection_analysis.do estimates the models presented in Tables 1-4 (calls survey_ads_2000v2.dta, and hetreg.sta) 2. survey_ads_2000v2.do creates/recodes variables for analysis (calls survey_ads_2000v2.dta)

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Frequent coauthors

• Paul S. Martin

  4 shared

• Charlotte McClintock

  2 shared

• Jeffrey J. Fox

  2 shared

• April Clyburne-Sherin

  2 shared

• Sherry Lake

  University of Virginia

  2 shared

• Andrea Ogier

  Virginia Tech

  2 shared

• Bart Ragon

  University of Virginia

  2 shared

• Arlyn Burgess

  University of Virginia

  2 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Political Science

  University of Oklahoma

• Ph.D., Political Science

  University of Virginia