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Bio
Dino Pinterpe Christenson is currently a Presidential Fellow at Ohio State University, where he studies American politics and quantitative methods. He focuses on voting behavior, campaign dynamics and public opinion with subsequent concentrations in bureaucracies and interest groups. His methodological interests include survey research, experiments, longitudinal data models, Bayesian models, network analysis and matching.
He is working on several papers and a dissertation relating to electoral heterogeneity, particularly: the roles of information and exposure in presidential voting behavior. His dissertation is supported by an NSF improvement grant. He is also the Co-founder of the Visible Primary Project.
He received his BA from the University of Michigan and is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science and a Graduate Minor in the Department of Statistics at Ohio State University; he does not have a preferred football team. His hobbies include web design, natural language processing and Italian neorealist literature and cinema.
Formerly, Dino was the Senior Fellow at the Program for Statistics and Methodology (PRISM), the Graduate Student Representative to the Political Research Lab (PRL), and the Webmaster for the Department of Political Science. Prior to graduate school, he spent two years working in politics; he has held professional positions as a policy advisor and public relations consultant.
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