Christopher Hare

I'm an associate professor of political science at UC Davis, where I've been teaching and researching since 2015. I earned my PhD from the University of Georgia, where I learned American politics and political methodology under Keith Poole. My dissertation ("Ideology and the American Voter") focused on developing methodological tools to examine ideological structure underlying political attitudes. Since then, I've continued to explore public opinion and voting behavior using statistical methods like Bayesian modeling and machine learning.

At UC Davis, I have taught courses on political polarization, campaigns and elections, public opinion, voting behavior, Bayesian methods, scaling and measurement, and machine learning. I also teach summer workshops on programming and data analysis for social scientists at the ICPSR Summer Program and Essex Summer School. I truly enjoy making (or attempting to make) complex methods accessible to students and researchers.

I'm originally from the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Long Beach, Mississippi) and am serving concurrent life sentences as a fan of the New Orleans Saints and Southern Miss Golden Eagles. My Erdős number is 4.