I hope you're enjoying the slobbery Boston weather almost as much as
you're enjoing polishing your papers. If you haven't already handed in
the paper, now would be a perfect time to reread this:
http://gking.harvard.edu/papers/papers.html
I wrote it just for times like this.
Best,
Gary
I write at the suggestion of Gary King.
>QUANTITATIVE R.A. POSITION FOR "DIVERSITY, EQUALITY AND COMMUNITY"
>RESEARCH PROJECT
>Hours: 8-12 hours/week on average.
>
>Prof. Robert Putnam seeks interested and skilled quantitative R.A for
>multi-year research project on diversity, equality, and social capital.
>
>Quantitative analysis is largely statistical survey analysis of the
>multi-level Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey (30,000
>respondents across 42 diverse communities). Some other US and non-US
>data-sets will also be deployed. Work is interesting substantively and
>challenging methodologically.
>
>This research position will last for academic year 2004-2005, with the
>possibility of a summer continuation. Work time is entirely flexible,
>subject to making steady progress on the project.
>
>If interested please contact Tom Sander (tom_sander(a)harvard.edu) ASAP with:
>* your significant statistical (esp. SPSS/HLM) and quantitative
>experience (and related work experience);
>* when you would be available and for how many hours per week; and
>* references for your statistical and analytic skills and experience.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Bob Putnam
FYI
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Stewart III" <cstewart(a)MIT.EDU>
To: <gov2001-l(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 1:16 PM
Subject: TA possibility at MIT
> Hello Gov 2001 students,
>
> Gary King told me to e-mail.
>
> Because I have recently been named department head at MIT, we are
> scrambling to arrange teaching this coming spring (Feb. 1) of my normal
> spring class, called the Political Science Laboratory (17.871). It's
> basically a project-based data analysis class for majors that introduces
> them soup-to-nuts to doing quantitative analysis in political science. An
> earlier version of the class is characterized at the MIT Open CourseWare
> site at
> http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Political-Science/17-871Political-Science-Laborat…
>
> We are looking for someone to help TA the class. There is some grading
> and helping on statistical assignments (they learn linear regression
> really fast), but the real help that's needed is in leading undergraduates
> through their first quantitative research. They have to identify a
> tractable topic, design a study and write a paper. They need help
> learning the mundane aspects of doing quantitative research, such as using
> Stata, getting data sets together, understanding what a researchable topic
> is, etc.
>
> If you're interested in helping out on something like this, please let me
> know.
>
> Charles Stewart
>
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> Charles Stewart III
> Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science
> MacVicar Faculty Fellow
> Housemaster of McCormick Hall
>
> Voice: 617.253.3127 / Facsimile: 617.258.6164 / e-mail:
> cstewart(a)mit.edu / URL: http://web.mit.edu/cstewart/www/
>
> Building E53-473
> Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
> ===========================================================
> Charles Stewart III
> Head of the Department of Political Science
> Professor of Political Science
> MacVicar Faculty Fellow
> Housemaster of McCormick Hall
>
> Voice: 617.253.3127 / Facsimile: 617.253.3164
> e-mail: cstewart(a)mit.edu / URL: http://web.mit.edu/cstewart/www/
>
> Department of Political Science
> Building E53-473
> Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
>
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