Kirk Bansak

Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley

email: kbansak@berkeley.edu
website: www.kirkbansak.com

About

Kirk is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley. He is a faculty affiliate of the Immigration Policy Lab, as well as a faculty affiliate of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative.

In addition to immigration policy, Kirk’s research interests are in causal inference, experimental design and analysis, survey methodology, political economy, and computational social science. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in Science, Political Analysis, Journal of Politics, Statistical Science, Political Science Research and MethodsNature Human Behavior, and Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A. He holds a Ph.D. in political science and M.S. in statistics from Stanford, an M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School (Tufts), and a B.A. in anthropology from Harvard University.