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 research has appeared or is forthcoming in Science, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Political Science Review. It received the John T. Williams dissertation prize and the best poster award by the Society for Political Methodology, and it has been supported by a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Dean Knox, Will Lowe, and Jonathan Mummolo. Forthcoming. "The Bias is Built In: How Administrative Records Mask Racially Biased Policing." American Political Science Review.
DownloadFragile Families Challenge Team. Forthcoming. "Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Research Report).
EmbargoedDean Knox and Jonathan Mummolo. 2020. "Making inferences about racial disparities in police violence." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Letter).
DownloadSamuel 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.
DownloadDean Knox and Jonathan Mummolo. 2020. "It took us months to contest a flawed study on police bias. Here’s why that’s dangerous." Washington Post.
LinkDean Knox and Christopher Lucas. "A Dynamic Model of Speech for the Social Sciences." Revise and resubmit, American Political Science Review.
DownloadBocar Ba, Dean Knox, Jonathan Mummolo, and Roman Rivera. "The Impact of Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Policing."
DownloadFotini Christia, Elizabeth Dekeyser, and Dean Knox. "The Nature and Origins of Sectarian Animosity."
DownloadDean 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.