The Guinier Project research assistant, hosted by the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School, is specifically designed to cultivate scholarship on racial representation, democracy, voting rights, and electoral reform. The Guinier Project is named after the late Prof. Lani Guinier, and the work of the Project seeks to carefully consider the actual and potential impacts of voting system reform on racial/ethnic communities and democratic, multiracial representation.
This research assistant appointment is open to political science or other quantitatively-oriented students with sufficient research experience. We are specifically interested in candidates experienced in the analysis of racially polarized voting (RPV) and the use of ecological and related regression techniques used to estimate RPV.
Desirable skills for successful candidates may include:
- Collection and curation of local election and census data;
- Ability to design, implement and estimate levels of racially polarized voting for candidates running in local jurisdictions;
- Ability to run statistical and/or mathematical models and code in R or Python;
Assistants are expected to make specific contributions to the Guinier Project and will also devote time to scholarly activities to further their personal research agendas. Assistants will have the opportunity to interact with a broad range of leading scholars and advocates working in the fields of democracy, voting rights, and electoral reform.
Please email your resume and a brief cover letter to Michael Latner – mlatner@law.harvard.edu.
If you have any questions please reach out to Marina Apostol – mapostol@law.harvard.edu