Charles Crabtree

I am a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. I am a member of the CP Group and also the Editorial Assistant of the Newsletter for APSA's Organized Section in Comparative Politics. I previously studied at The Pennsylvania State University, where I received an M.A. in Political Science. I have also studied at the University of Colorado, where I earned a B.A. in History (with a minor in Classics), and at Northwestern University, where I graduated with an M.A. in Public Policy and Administration. After completing my B.A., I lived in Minsk, Belarus for two years. While there, I taught English and traveled throughout the former Soviet Union.

I am interested in censorship and propaganda, human rights, authoritarian regimes, and post-Soviet politics. Methodologically, I am interested in research design, experiments (field, survey, lab), causal inference with observational data, measurement, and GIS. My research is published or is forthcoming at the British Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Experimental Political Science, the Journal of Peace Research, Personality and Individual Differences, PLOS ONE, Research & Politics, and Sociological Science.