Amanda Loehrke

Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University of California, Davis

Amanda Loehrke

Ph.D. Candidate

Political Science, UC Davis

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Biography

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. My research focuses on American politics and methodology, with particular interests in gender politics, race & ethnic politics, and media communication. I am interested in how people’s identities influence how they interact in politics from the voter and candidate perspectives. Methodologically, I use computational social science, natural language processing, text as data, and machine learning.

Additionally, I have extensive teaching experience, having served as a teaching assistant for graduate and undergraduate courses in quantitative methods and American politics, and for the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods.

Education

Ph.D., Political Science2022–2027 (in progress), University of California, Davis

B.A., Political Science2021, University of Wisconsin–Green Bay

Research interests

American Political Behavior Gender Politics Race & Ethnic Politics Media & Political Communication Computational Social Science Natural Language Processing Machine Learning