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Research Interests

Political sociology, Middle Eastern and North African politics, revolution and contentious politics, text analytic methods and natural language processing, democratization, ethnic identity and politics, social science computation, quantitative, qualitative, and comparative-historical methods, fuzzy-set QCA.

Publications

Causey, Charles, Daniel Koski-Karell and Steven Pfaff. 2010. "Religion and Comparative Political Sociology." Sociology Compass 4:365-380.

Papers Under Review

Causey, Charles. 2011. Revise and resubmit at American Sociological Review.

Education

Present

PhD Candidate, Sociology
University of Washington, Seattle
Expected graduation date: Spring 2013
Major exam: Institutional Analysis and Political Sociology (with distinction)
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences Certificate (in progress)
Dissertation Committee: Steven Pfaff (chair), Katherine Stovel, Edgar Kiser, and Philip Howard

2009

Master of Arts, Sociology
University of Washington, Seattle
Thesis Title: Institutions or Islam? Disparities in Gender Attitudes between Islamic and non-Islamic Countries
Thesis Committee: Steven Pfaff (chair) and Katherine Stovel

2006

Master of Arts, Psychology
College of William & Mary

2003

Bachelor of Science, Psychology
Virginia Tech

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

2009
2011

Two Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships, Arabic
Middle East Center, University of Washington

2010

Herbert L. Costner Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award
University of Washington Department of Sociology (Honorable Mention)

2010

Graduate Research Grant, European Union Center of Excellence
Brussels, Belgium, summer

2010

FLAS, French
West European Studies Center, University of Washington
(Awarded but not accepted)

2009

Outstanding Performance for the Master of Arts
Department of Sociology, University of Washington

2009

Nominated for Outstanding Thesis in the College of Arts and Sciences

2007

Critical Language Scholarship (CLS)
United States Department of State
University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

Teaching Experience

SOC 110: Survey of Sociology (*)
SOC 220: Sociological Methods
SOC 270: Social Problems
SOC 271: Deviance and Social Control
SOC 300: Foundations of Social Inquiry (*)
SOC 504: Applied Social Statistics (**)
SOC 505: Applied Social Statistics (**)

Research Methods in Psychology
Elementary Statistics for Psychology

Conference Presentation and Seminar Participation

2010

ASA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA
Section on Political Sociology: Gender Equality and Democratic Development
Paper title: "Status Inequality and Institutions: Can Institutions Change Gender Attitudes?"

2010

Seminar in Institutional Analysis, University of Washington
"Institutions, Gender, and Islam: How Institutions Shape and Reshape Status Beliefs"

2009

Comparative Historical Analysis of Organizations and States (Discussant)
University of Washington and Cambridge University Press
"Understanding Western Intervention in the Twenty-First Century: Rationality, Fear, and Loathing in the Western Balkans"
Author: Roger Petersen (MIT)

2009

Seminar in Institutional Analysis, University of Washington (Discussant)
"Even in Sweden: The Effect of Immigration on Support for Welfare State Spending"
Author: Maureen Eger

2008

Seminar in Institutional Analysis, University of Washington (Discussant)
"Principled Principals in the Founding Moments of the Rule of Law" Authors: Margaret Levi and Brad Epperly

2008

Seminar in Institutional Analysis, University of Washington (Discussant)
"Norms of War" Author: Edgar Kiser and Eric Gleave

Service

Undergraduate Advisor, UW Sociology
Organizer, Seminar in Institutional Analysis
Representative to Undergraduate Program Committee, UW Sociology

Professional Activity

Reviewer, New Media & Society
Reviewer, Comparative Political Studies
Reviewer, Personal Relationships

Languages

English (Native speaker)
Arabic (Advanced)
French (Intermediate

Programming and Markup

R, Stata, Python, HTML, LaTeX

Current as of: 6 December 2011

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