Melissa Sands is Assistant Professor of Politics and Data Science at the London School of Economics (LSE). Her research examines the consequences of context on political and civic behavior. Specializing in causal inference, field experiments, and spatial/geographic analysis, her research shows that who and what we encounter as we go about our everyday lives affects the policies we support and how we interact with government and with other people. She received her PhD from the Harvard University Department of Government in 2017, and earned an MPA from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. Her work has been published in Nature, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Political Science Review, and other outlets.
Melissa Sands is Assistant Professor of Politics and Data Science at the London School of Economics (LSE). Her research examines the consequences of context on political and civic behavior. Specializing in causal inference, field experiments, and spatial/geographic analysis, her research shows that who and what we encounter as we go about our everyday lives affects the policies we support and how we interact with government and with other people. She received her PhD from the Harvard University Department of Government in 2017, and earned an MPA from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. Her work has been published…