Our Students
Douglas Spencer
Year: 3rd Year Grad Student - JSP
Email: dspencer@berkeley.edu
Education:MPP, University of California, Berkeley - Goldman School of Public Policy
BA, Philosophy, magna cum laude, Columbia University
Law & Economics
Election Law
Governmental Indicators
Selznick Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley (2007-2008)
Research Grant ($4,000) from the Pew Center on the States (2008)
Research Grant ($15,000) from the University of California, Berkeley Survey Research Center (2007-2008)
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, Political Science (2007)
Research Assistant, Professor Henry Brady, UC Berkeley Political Science Department (2007-present)
Research Assistant, Professor Sean Farhang, Goldman School of Public Policy (Summer 2008)
Graduate Student Instructor, The American Legal System (PS150), Professor Robert Kagan (Spring & Fall 2007)
Editor-in-Chief, PolicyMatters Journal, Goldman School of Public Policy (2006-2007)
Adjunct Faculty, Utah Valley University Philosophy Department (2005)
Editor, Columbia Undergraduate Philosophy Review (2003-2004)
Public Policy Intern, Pacific Gas & Electric Company (Summer 2007)
Program Assistant, International Finance Corporation (2005-2006)
Congressional Liaison, United States Department of the Interior (2005)
Contract Manager, United States Department of State (2002-2003)
Chief of Staff, Russian Olympic Committee (2000-2002)
- Lines at Polling Places: Data Collection in the 2008 California Primary - This draft report (co-authored with Zachary Markovits) details the logic and strategy behind our February 5, 2008 field study when 120 data collectors were dispatched to 30 polling stations in Northern California. The report is available as an addendum to the Electionline briefing, "Dispatches from the Polls" at http://www.electionline.org. (Electionline.org is a project of the Pew Center on the States)
