Omar Wasow

Curriculum Vitae

• My current c.v.

Papers:

• “Agenda Seeding: How 1960s Black Protests Moved Elites, Public Opinion and Voting,” forthcoming in American Political Science Review. Online Appendix.
• “Race as a ‘Bundle of Sticks’: Designs that Estimate Effects of Seemingly Immutable Characteristics,” Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 19:499-522 (Volume publication date May 2016).
• “Can Tweets Kill a Movie? An Empirical Evaluation of the Bruno Effect,” with Alex Baron, Marlon Gerra, Katharine Lauderdale, Han Zhang. Computer Human Interaction 2010, April 10–15, 2010. Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Awards

• Stanley Kelley, Jr. Teaching Award, Department of Politics, Princeton University. 2019.
• Bobst Faculty Research Grant, Bobst Center, Princeton University. 2015-16.
• Dissertation Fellowship, Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics, Harvard University. 2011-12.
• Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellowship, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University. 2010-11.
• Henry Crown Fellowship, Aspen Institute. 2008-10.
• Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation. 2007-10.

Teaching

• FRS165: Projecting Power
  • Description: First-year seminar on ethnic politics that combined traditional political science texts and film
  • Syllabus
  • Evaluations:
    • 100% rated class “excellent” or “very good”
    • Overall rating: 4.8 out of 5
    • Full course evaluation
• POL346: Applied Quantitative Analysis
  • Description: Second semester undergrad stats
  • Syllabus, slides and handouts
  • Evaluations in 2020:
    • 100% would recommend course to other students (77% “strongly recommend” and 23% “recommend”)
    • Overall rating: 4.8 out of 5
    • Full course evaluation for 2020
  • Evaluations in 2019:
    • 95% would recommend course to other students (81% “strongly recommend” and 14% “recommend”)
    • Overall rating: 4.7 out of 5
    • Full course evaluation for 2019
• GOV30: American Government (while grad student at Harvard)
  • Description: Intro to American Government
  • Evaluations:
    • Awarded Certificate of Distinction in Teaching
    • Overall rating 4.5 out of 5
    • Full course evaluation

Book Project:

• The Protester’s Dilemma: How 1960s Black Protests Influenced Media and Politics.

Working Papers:

• “Conditional ethnocentrism: Experimental evidence from protests in the United States.”
• “How Anti-Immigrant Policies and Rhetoric Angers and Mobilizes Latinos,” with Nicholas Valentino, Ali Valenzuela and Matt Barreto. (Presented at APSA 2019)
• “Affluent politics and the rise of Trump,” with Tali Mendelberg and Sean Kates.
• “The Boundaries of Black Voting,” with Brandon McGhee.
• “Election Effects, Perceptions of Immigration Context and Self-Reported General and Mental Health among Latinos and Whites in the United States,” with Ali Valenzuela and Krista Perriera.

Google Scholar

• My Google Scholar page.