Joseph Ornstein -

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Joe Ornstein is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Georgia. He earned his PhD from the University of Michigan in 2018, and has previously held positions at the Brookings Institution and Washington University in St. Louis. His research and teaching focuses on statistical methodology, computational social science, and urban politics. He has published articles in the American Political Science Review, Political Analysis, Economics & Politics, the American Journal of Public Health, Public Choice, and the Journal of Theoretical Politics, among other outlets.

Education

PhD, University of Michigan, Political Science, 2018
BA, Dartmouth College, Mathematics & Social Sciences, 2009

Areas of Expertise

Methodology
State & Local Government

Research Interests

Computational Social Science
Text as Data
Causal Inference

Selected Publications

Blasingame, Elise N., Christina L. Boyd, Robert F. Carlos, Joseph T. Ornstein (2023). “How the Trump Administration’s Quota Policy Transformed Immigration Judging”. American Political Science Review.

Einstein, Katherine Levine, Joseph T. Ornstein, & Maxwell Palmer (2022). “Who Represents the Renters?” Housing Policy Debate.

Ornstein, Joseph T. (2020). “Stacked Regression and Poststratification”. Political Analysis. 28: 293-301.