Christopher J. Fariss




About Me

I am a Professor (beginning September 1, 2024) in the Department of Political Science and Faculty Associate in the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan. I am also an Affiliated Scholar at the Security and Political Economy (SPEC) Lab at the University of Southern California. From 2013 to 2016, I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Penn State University. In June 2013, I graduated with a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, San Diego. I also studied at the University of North Texas, where I graduated with an M.S. in political science (2007), a B.F.A in drawing and painting (2005), and a B.A. in political science (2005).

My core research focuses on the politics and measurement of human rights, discrimination, violence, and repression. I use computational methods to understand why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods and research design. These methodological tools, essential for analyzing data at massive scale, open up new insights into the micro-foundations of state repression and the politics of measurement.

Below you will find links to my publications, working papers, teaching material, several Dataverse archives where you can access replication data and project datasets, and links to human rights data generated from several measurement projects. Preprints for some published and unpublished articles are availabe at arxiv, OSF, or SSRN. Some blog posts are available at Good Authority (formerly The Monkey Cage), Political Violence at a Glance, and Open Global Rights. For more information about my research, teaching, and mentoring, please see my CV and research statement, and teaching and mentoring statement.

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Dataverse Archives

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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

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Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

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Editor-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

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Editor-Reviewed Editorials and Other Publications

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Policy Publications

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Selected Unpublished Manuscripts

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Teaching

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Contact

Center for Political Studies (CPS)
Institute for Social Research, 4200 Bay
University of Michigan
426 Thompson Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48106-1248
USA
cjf0006@gmail.com


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