New Faculty: Amanda Weiss

Amanda Weiss

Assistant Professor, Government

Academic focus: 

Political methodology

Current research project: 

Challenges with deploying modern causal inference methods in real-world data.

Academic background:

  • Ph.D., Political science, Yale University, 2025
  • M.A., Statistics, Yale University, 2024
  • M.Phil., Political science, Yale University, 2023
  • M.S.S.W., Policy practice, Columbia University, 2020
  • B.A, Art history, Columbia University, 2017

Last book read:

“The Magician,” Colm Tóibín

In your own time/when not working:

I can be found walking my dog, baking or running.

Courses you’re most looking forward to teaching: 

I am especially excited to start teaching my seminar on Analysis of Natural Experiments (GOVT 4000/6129) and, in the spring, to start teaching in the graduate quantitative methods sequence.

What most excites you about Cornell:

I’m thrilled to be part of a community that is so curious and open across subfields. I was blown away, when I first visited Cornell, by the enthusiasm of faculty and students for new ideas and ways of thinking about and conducting research in the social sciences. 

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