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Mills College Sahar Abi-Hassan Oakland, CA 94613 T (240) 393-8429 Assistant Professor of Political Science B [email protected] Education 2020 Ph.D. in Political Science, Boston University, Boston, MA. Dissertation: “A Network Approach to Influence: Interest Group Com- position and Judicial Behavior” Committee Members: Dr. Dino P. Christenson, Dr. Janet M. Box- Steffensmeier, Dr. Douglas L. Kriner & Dr. David M. Glick 2013 M.A. in Government and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, Alexandria, VA. 2005 B.A. in Architecture, University of Zulia, Venezuela. Teaching Experience 2020-present Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy & Political Science, Mills College, Oakland, CA. Courses: Law and Society; American Constitutional Law: Fundamen- tal Freedoms; Courts and Policy; Interest Group Politics; Women’s Leadership in Politics: Comparative Perspective; Qualitative Methods Research. 2015-2020 Teaching Fellow, Department of Political Science, Boston University, Boston, CA. Courses: Law, Courts and Public Policy; Advanced Quantitative Meth- ods: MLE; Intro to American Politics; Intro to Public Policy; Intro to Comparative Politics. Leadership & Professional Services 2020–present Head of Legal Studies, Mills College, Oakland, CA. 2018–present Ad Hoc Peer Reviewer. Journals: American Political Research; Journal of Legislative Studies; Review of International Studies; Western European Politics 2021 Program Committee Member, Political Networks Conference, The Pennsylvania State University. Research & Publications Submitted & In Preparation. In preparation “Time, Place and Scope: A journey through the U.S. Supreme Court and its Friends" In collaboration with Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Dino P. Christenson, Enan Srivastava, and Garrett P. Carder. Presented at the 2021 SPSA Annual Meeting In preparation “Environmental Constraints and the Evolution of Ties within US Supreme Court Advocacy Network." Presented at the 2020 Pol- Net/PaCCS In preparation “United We Stand: Interest Group Ideological Cohesion and Judicial Behavior" Presented at the 2020 SPSA Annual Meeting & 2019 APSA Annual Meeting Under review “Large-scale Estimation of Interest Group Ideal Point" In collabora- tion with Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Dino P. Christenson, Aaron Russell Kaufman, and Brian Libgober. Presented at the 2019 SPSA Annual Meeting Under review “Interest Group Composition and Dissensus on the U.S. Supreme Court" In collaboration with Janet Box-Steffensmeier and Dino P. Christenson. Presented at the 2019 NPSA Annual Meeting Peer-Reviewed Journals. 2015 “Populist Discourse and the Remaking of the Political Opposition in Venezuela." Uruguayan Journal of Political Science. Vol. 24(2) 29-48. Book Chapters. In preparation Networks and Computational Social Science. In the “Oxford Handbook of Methodological Pluralism", ed. Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Dino P. Christenson, and Valeria Sinclair–Chapman. 2018 Populism in Venezuela: The role of the opposition. In the “The Ideational Approach to Populism: Concept, Theory and Method", ed. Kirk Hawkins, Ryan Carlin, Levi Littvay, and Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser. 2017 Gender and Populism. In the “Oxford Handbook of Populism", ed. Pierre Ostiguy, Paul Taggart and Cristobal Rovira-Kaltwasser. Conferences & Workshops 2017, 18, 19, 20, 21 SPSA, Annual Meetings 2016, 17, 18, 19, 21 MPSA, Annual Meetings 2013, 16, 17, 18, 19 APSA, Annual Meetings 2020 13th PACSS and PolNet Conference. Virtual 2016, 17, 18, 19 Boston University Data Science Day Boston, MA 2019 12th Political Networks Workshops & Conference. Durham, NC 2019 WPSA, Annual Meeting San Diego, CA 2019 10th International Conference on Complex Networks, COMPLENET. Tarragona, Spain 2018 11th Political Networks Workshops & Conference. Washington, DC 2018 Vision in Methodology Annual Meeting. Columbus, OH 2016 10th Political Networks Workshops & Conference. Columbus, OH 2016 9th Political Networks Workshops & Conference. St. Louis, MO 2014, 15, 16 Latin American Studies Association, Annual Conference Invited Talks 2018 Invited Talk at Populism, Gender and Language: Lessons from Latin America and Beyond Conference. NYU Center for Latin American and Caribean Studies 2016 Invited talk at Team Populism’s January Conference, BYU. Provo, Utah Grants 2018-19 GRS, Dissertation Fellowship. Boston University 2018 GRS, Summer Research Fellowship. Boston University 2016-17 Quantitative Methods Fellowship. Boston University 2017 Prestage-Cook Award Travel Award. SPSA 2016 Political Networks 2016 Graduate Student Fellowship. APSA-PolNet 2015 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellowship. Boston University 2014 College of Arts and Science, Dean’s Fellowship. Boston University Honors & Awards 2019 Poster Award for Best Methodological Contribution @ 12th Annual Political Networks Workshops & Conference. Durham, NC 2019 “Brilliant Bud Award", BU Data Science Conference. Boston University 2018 2017-2018 Outstanding Teaching Fellow in the for the Department of Political Science. Boston University 2013 GIA Founding Faculty Award for Outstanding Graduating Student. Virginia Tech Other Education & Training 2019 Center for Teaching & Learning, Leading Engaging Class Discus- sions Workshop, Boston University, Boston, MA. 2019 Political Networks Workshops, Community Detection & Advanced ERGM, Duke University, Durham, NC. 2018 Political Networks Workshops, Advanced Inferential Network Mod- els, ERGM & TERGM, George Mason University, Arlington, VA. 2016 ICPSR Summer Program, Advanced Topics in MLE & Causal In- ference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 2017 Political Networks Workshops, Introduction to Latent Models in Network Analysis, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. 2016 Political Networks Workshops, Introduction to Exponential Ran- dom Graph Models & Advanced Network Visualization with R, Wash- ington University – St. Louis, St. Louis, MO. Methodology Specialties Regression Linear Regression, Maximum Likelihood Estimation Network Analysis Descriptive and Inferential analysis Other Time Series, Event History, Formal Theory, & Causal Inference Computer skills Statistics R, RStudio, STATA Software python,LATEX, Git, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office Graphics Photoshop, AUTOCAD, 3D Studio Max Operating Systems MacOS, Microsoft, and Linux Affiliations 2016 Southern Political Science Association 2015 Midwest Political Science Association 2015 American Political Science Association, Political Networks Division & Judicial Politics Division Languages Spanish Native Language Arabic Limited Working Proficiency.