Hello! I'm an assistant professor in politics at Princeton. I develop quantitative models and methods for new forms of social science data. These new sources include many forms of data previously thought to be too unstructured to study: audiovisual data conveying human emotion, path data for sequential decision-making, and mobile location data on movement and social interaction. My research touches on political communication and ethnic politics, including racialized policing in the United States and Sunni-Shia relations in the Middle East.
My work has appeared or is forthcoming in Science and the Journal of the American Statistical Association, received the John T. Williams dissertation prize and the best poster award by the Society for Political Methodology, and was supported by a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Samuel Mehr, Manvir Singh, Dean Knox, Daniel Ketter, Daniel Pickens-Jones, Stephanie Atwood, Christopher Lucas, Nori Jacoby, Alena Egner, Erin Hopkins, Rhea Howard, Joshua Hartshorne, Mariela Jennings, Jan Simson, Constance Bainbridge, Steven Pinker, Timothy O'Donnell, Max Krasnow, and Luke Glowacki. 2019. "Universality and Diversity in Human Song." Science (Research Article).
DownloadDean Knox, Teppei Yamamoto, Matthew Baum, and Adam Berinsky. 2019. "Design, Identification, and Sensitivity Analysis for Patient Preference Trials." Journal of the American Statistical Association.
DownloadFragile Families Challenge Team. "Measuring the Predictability of Life Outcomes with a Scientific Mass Collaboration." Revise and resubmit, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
Dean Knox and Christopher Lucas." A Dynamic Model of Speech for the Social Sciences." Revise and resubmit, American Political Science Review.
DownloadDean Knox, Will Lowe, and Jonathan Mummolo. "The Bias is Built In: How Administrative Records Mask Racially Biased Policing." Revise and resubmit, American Political Science Review.
DownloadFotini Christia, Elizabeth Dekeyser, and Dean Knox. "The Nature and Origins of Sectarian Animosity."
DownloadDean Knox, Will Lowe, and Jonathan Mummolo. "Rethinking Research on Racial Bias in Policing."
Dean Knox. "ffgrep: Scalable Approximate String Matching."
DownloadFotini Christia, Dean Knox, and Jaffar Al-Rikabi. "Networks of Sectarianism: Experimental Evidence on Access to Services in Baghdad."
DownloadDean Knox. "A Model for Path Data."
DownloadDean Knox, Jake Hofman, and Duncan Watts. "The Structure and Dynamics of Diffusive Conversations."
Princeton POL 571. Probability Theory.
Princeton POL 574. Machine Learning.