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David B. SparksDepartment of Political ScienceDuke UniversityPerkins Library, Box 90204Durham, NC 27708

Phone: (919) 724-4443Office: Old Chem 408AEmail: d.sparks@duke.eduHomepage: http://dsparks.wordpress.com

Education

Ph.D. Political Science, Duke University, (Projected) 2012.Committee: John Aldrich (chair), Scott de Marchi, David Rohde, and George Rabinowitz.

B.A. Political Science and Economics, Summa Cum Laude , Vanderbilt University, 2006

Research

Conference Presentations

Aldrich, John, Jacob Montgomery, and David Sparks. 2010. Drawing (Inferences) Outside the Line:Dimensionality in Congress. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Asso-ciation.

Sparks, David. 2010. Regionalization via Network-Constrained Clustering. Poster shown at the Polit-ical Networks Conference.

Sparks, David. 2010. Partisan Structure in Online Social Networks. Presented at the Annual Meetingof the Midwest Political Science Association.

Sparks, David. 2010. Party Control and Political Agendas . Presented at the Annual Meeting of theMidwest Political Science Association.

Aldrich, John and David Sparks. 2010. Political Figures in a social and cultural context: Dimensionalityof candidate evaluations . Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association.

Sparks, David and Candis Watts. 2009. The Obama Effect: Racial Attitudes and Their Effects onCandidate Appraisals . Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association.

Invited Talks

A Thousand Words: The Visualization of Large-N, Multidimensional Data. Sep 2010. Presented atthe National Institute of Standards and Technology, Washington, DC.

Racial Attitudes and Their Effects on Candidate Evaluations. With Candis S. Watts. Nov 2009.Presented at the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the Social Sciences, DukeUniversity.

Teaching

Duke University

Introduction to Political Inquiry, Spring 2011, TA for Chris Gelpi.

American Political Parties, Fall 2010, Instructor.

Ralph Bunche Summer Institute, Summer 2010, Statistics TA.

Prisoners Dilemma and Distributive Justice, Spring 2010, TA for Geoffrey Brennan.

Conict, Collusion and Cooperation, Fall 2009, TA for Emerson Niou.

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Prisoners Dilemma and Distributive Justice, Spring 2010, TA for Michael Munger.

Professional Activities

Member, American Political Science Association.

Member, Midwestern Political Science Association.Member, Southern Political Science Association.

Reviewer for Public Choice , American Politics Research .

Honors, Awards, & Fellowships

Summer Research Fellowship, Duke University, 2011.PARISS Certicate, Duke University, 2009.

James B. Duke Fellowship, Duke University, 2006.PIPC Fellow, Duke University, 2006.

Honors in Political Science, Vanderbilt University, 2006.Honors in the College of Arts & Science, Vanderbilt University, 2006.

Phi Beta Kappa , Vanderbilt University, 2006.

Miscellaneous

Relevant experiene: Statistical Consultant to the Boston Celtics basketball team.

Last updated: February 15, 2011