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James Wagner

James Wagner, Ph.D. is a Research Professor at the University of Michigan’s Survey Research Center (UM-SRC). His research is in the area of survey nonresponse and methods for addressing it during data collection. He has co-authored a book on adaptive survey design — which is a set of methods that aims to optimize the recruitment ...

David Rigby

I completed my PhD in sociology at UNC Chapel Hill followed by teaching at Washington University St. Louis, a postdoctoral fellowship at Duke with the sociology department and population research institute, and I am now a research scientist at the UM Institute for Social Research in the Landscapes of Population Health program. In my research ...

Briana Mezuk

Dr. Mezuk is the Director of the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health and is an Associate Chair in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She is a psychiatric epidemiologist whose research focuses on understanding the intersections of mental and physical health. Much of her work has ...

Matthew VanEseltine

Dr. VanEseltine is a sociologist and data scientist working with large-scale administrative data for causal and policy analysis. His interests include studying the effects of scientific infrastructure, training, and initiatives, as well as the development of open, sustainable, and replicable systems for data construction, curation, and dissemination. As part of the Institute for Research on ...

Inbal (Billie) Nahum-Shani

Inbal (Billie) Nahum-Shani is a Research Associate Professor in the Institute for Social Research, and a founding member of the Data-science for Dynamic Decision-making lab (d3lab) at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on conceptual and methodological issues pertaining to the construction of effective Adaptive Interventions — a treatment design in which ongoing information ...

Yajuan Si

My research lies in cutting-edge methodology development in streams of Bayesian statistics, complex survey inference, missing data imputation, causal inference, and data confidentiality protection. I have extensive collaboration experiences with health services researchers and epidemiologists to improve healthcare and public health practice, and have been providing statistical support to solve sampling and analysis issues on ...

Colter Mitchell

Dr. Mitchell’s research focuses on the causes and consequences of family formation behavior. He examines how social context such as neighborhood resources and values influence family processes and how those processes interplay with an individual’s genetic and epigenetic makeup to influence behavior, wellbeing, and health. His research also includes the development of new methods for ...

Matthew Shapiro

Prof. Shapiro is the Lawrence R. Klein Collegiate Professor of Economics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prof. Shapiro’s general area of research is macroeconomics. He has studied investment and capital utilization, business-cycle fluctuations, consumption and saving, ...

Michael Traugott

Michael Traugott, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Research Professor Emeritus, Center for Political Studies and Adjunct Research Professor, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research. Professor Traugott studies the mass media and their impact on American politics. This includes research ...

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Jowei Chen

Associate Professor, Political Science, LSACenter for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research

Gerald Davis

Professor, Management, Ross School of Business Sociology, LSA Institute for Social Research

Pamela Davis-Kean

Professor, Psychology, LSA Institute for Social Research

Margaret Hedstrom

Professor Emerita of Information, School of Information

Roderick Little

Professor, Biostatistics, School of Public Health Institute for Social Research Statistics, LSA

Briana Mezuk

Associate Chair and Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology

Brian Min

Associate Professor, Political Science, LSA Center for Political Studies Institute for Social Research

Colter Mitchell

Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center Survey Research Center Institute for Social Research

Inbal (Billie) Nahum-Shani

Research Associate Professor, Institute for Social Research