Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier
Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science and
Professor of Sociology
Director of the Program in Statistics and Methodology
Office: 2049S Derby Hall
154 N. Oval Mall
Columbus, Ohio 43210
(614) 292-9642
email: steffensmeier.2@osu.edu
Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier
Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science
Professor Box-Steffensmeier pursues research and teaching interests in American politics (legislative politics, public opinion, and voting behavior and in methodology: time series and duration analysis). She has published articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. She is the author of Event History Modeling: A Guide for Social Scientists, published by Cambridge University Press. She is currently working on a Monte Carlo project to evaluate the treatment of heterogeneity in event history models, which is partially by the National Science Foundation. Other funded research includes projects on the dynamics of the gender gap and the timing of PAC contributions. She has been a recipient of the Gosnell Award for the best work in political methodology twice and the Emerging Scholar Award of the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section of the American Political Science Association.
Selected Publications:
2007. “Event
Dependence and Heterogeneity in Duration Models: The Conditional Frailty Model.” Political Analysis.
(with Suzanna DeBoef)
2007. “A Dynamic Labor Market: How Political Science is Opening Up to Methodologists, and How Methodologists are Opening Up Political Science.” PS: Political Science and Politics. (with Anand Sokhey)
2006. “Repeated Events Survival Models: The Conditional Frailty Model.” Statistics in Medicine. 25(20, October): 3518-3533. (with Suzanna DeBoef)
2004. Event History Modeling: A Guide for Social Scientists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (with Bradford Jones)
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
