Meet the Instructors

 

Workshop Instructors

Felix Elwert

Felix Elwert (Ph.D. Harvard, 2007) is Romnes Professor of Sociology and Professor of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He develops methods for causal inference in the social sciences. His empirical research deals with problems of social stratification, education, and social demography. His research has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, Demography, and Biometrics. Felix frequently teaches short courses on causal inference and graphical causal models in the United States and Europe. He is the winner of the 2018 Leo Goodman Award from the American Sociological Association and the 2013 winner of the Causality in Statistics Education Award from the American Statistical Association.   

 

David Harding

David Harding (Ph.D. Harvard, 2005) is a Professor of Sociology and Faculty Director, Social Science D-Lab at at University of California, Berkeley. David J. Harding has taught quantitative methods for over ten years at both the University of Michigan and UC Berkeley. In his own research, he has used various methods for causal inference, including propensity score matching, sensitivity analysis, inverse probability of treatment weighting, panel data models, regression with residuals, field experiments, and natural experiments. His recent work has appeared in the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, and Nature Human Behaviour, among other journals.  

 

Geoffrey Wodtke

Geoffrey Wodtke (Ph.D. University of Michigan, 2014is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. His research is in the areas of neighborhood effects and urban poverty, group conflict and racial attitudes, class structure and income inequality, and methods of causal inference in observational research. He is currently working on projects investigating the impact of neighborhood poverty on child development, the link between private business ownership and growing income inequality, and new methods for estimating causal effects in longitudinal studies. His previous work on these topics has been published in the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Demography, and Sociological Methodology.