Post-Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer
UC Berkeley School of Information
Alex Hughes is a post-doctoral researcher in the UC Berkeley School of Information. In 2016 he received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. He also studied at the University of Michigan where he graduated with a B.A. in Political Science and a B.A. in Econometrics.
He researches how group identity shapes access and behavior in politics. Often, this takes the form of experiments. His research has been published in Perspectives on Politics, California Journal of Politics and Policy, The Lancet, PNAS, and field journals.
Please see his projects page for more information about his research.
He leads the multiply-awarded course Experiments and Causality in the MIDS program at UC Berkeley.