Robert M. Bond: Curriculum Vitae - UC San Diego

University of California, San Diego
Department of Political Science
Social Science Building, 341
9500 Gilman Drive, #0521
La Jolla, CA 92093-0521
Education
Robert M. Bond
Email: rbond@ucsd.edu
Website: http://polisci2.ucsd.edu/rbond/
Phone: (480) 239-1919
Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, San Diego, (expected) 2013.
Dissertation Title: Essays in American Political Behavior
Committee: James Fowler (Chair), Charles Elkan (Computer Science), David Huber (Psychology),
Gary Jacobson, Thad Kousser.
Comprehensive Exam Fields: American Politics, Comparative Politics, Political Behavior (Focus
Field)
M.A., Political Science, Arizona State University, 2007.
B.A., Political Science, minors in Philosophy and Economics, Arizona State University, 2006.
Summa Cum Laude
Publications
1. “Yahtzee: An Anonymized Group Level Matching Procedure”, with Jason J. Jones, Christopher J.
Fariss, Jaime Settle, Adam D.I. Kramer, Cameron Marlow and James H. Fowler, forthcoming, PLoS
ONE.
2. Jason J. Jones, Jaime E. Settle, Robert M. Bond, Christopher J. Fariss, Cameron Marlow, and James H.
Fowler“Inferring Tie Strength from Online Directed Behavior”, forthcoming, PLoS ONE 8 (1):e52168
(January 2013).
3. Robert M. Bond, Christopher J. Fariss, Jason J. Jones, Adam D. I. Kramer, Cameron Marlow, Jaime
Settle and James H. Fowler “A 61-Million-Person Experiment in Social Influence and Political Mobilization”,
Nature 489: 295-298 (13 September 2012).
4. Jaime E. Settle, Robert M. Bond and Justin Levitt. “The Social Origins of Adult Political Behavior”,
American Politics Research 39 (2): 239-263 (March 2011).
Work in Progress
“Estimating Ideology Using Facebook’s ‘Like’ Data”
“Social Information and Political Participation”
“The Dynamic Spread of Voting”
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“Day-to-Day Political Engagement Partially Mediates the Effect of Competition on Voting”, with Jaime
E. Settle, Lorenzo Coviello, Christopher J. Fariss, James H. Fowler, Jason J. Jones, Adam D.I. Kramer,
and Cameron Marlow, under review
“The Classification of Political Discussion”, with Christopher J. Fariss, Jason J. Jones, Jaime E. Settle
and James H. Fowler
“Party Cohesion in Congress: A Social Network Approach using Cosponsorship Data”
“Tracking the Spread of Political (Mis)Information through Social Networks”, with Christopher J.
Fariss, Jason J. Jones and Neil Visalvanich
Workshops
Santa Fe Institute Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science Modeling and Complexity,
Summer 2011
Conference Presentations
American Political Science Association annual meeting 2010, 2011
Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting 2011, 2012
Political Networks Conference 2011, 2012
Society for Political Methods Summer Meeting 2011 (poster)
Academic Positions
University of California, San Diego, Department of Political Science
Teaching Assistant: Political Psychology, Voting, Campaigns and Eletions, California Politics, The Politics
of Regulation, The Law and Sex, Introduction to Comparative Politics, The Political Development
of Western Europe, The Supreme Court and The Constitution
Research Assistant for Professor Sam Kernell, 2009
Research Assistant for Professor Sam Popkin, 2010
Research Assistant for Professor James Fowler, 2010-2012
Arizona State University, Department of Political Science
Research Assistant for Professor Kim Fridkin, 2006-2007
Honors & Awards
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program Honorable Mention, 2009
Edmund G. Brown Sr. Fellowship, University of California, San Diego 2008-2009