Academic
C.V.
My current c.v. in pdf format.
Papers:
- “Race as a ‘Bundle of Sticks’: Designs that Estimate Effects of Seemingly Immutable Characteristics,” forthcoming in the Annual Review of Political Science.
Working Papers:
- “Do Protest Tactics Matter? Evidence from the 1960s Black Insurgency” (formerly “Nonviolence, Violence and Voting: Effects of the 1960s Black Protests on White Attitudes and Voting Behavior”)
- “What Effect Does Police Response Have on Violent Protest Severity?”
- “The Expanding and Contracting Circle: How Media Cues about Violent Protest Influence Dominant Group Identity and Attitudes”
- “The Protester’s Dilemma”
- “Why Red-light Districts? Police Capacity and Municipal State Formation, 1822-1874”
Google Scholar
My Google Scholar page.
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at Princeton. I received a PhD in African American Studies, an MA in Government and an MA in Statistics from Harvard University. Previously, I co-founded BlackPlanet.com and the Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School. I can be reached at owasow -at- gmail -dot- com.