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Full Name
  
Gary M. King

Role
  
Political Scientist

Name
  
Gary King

Website
  
Official website

Occupation
  
Political scientist


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Born
  
December 8, 1958 (age 65) (
1958-12-08
)
Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Residence
  
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Education
  
University of Wisconsin-Madison (1984), State University of New York at New Paltz

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada

Books
  
Designing Social Inquiry, A solution to the ecologica, Unifying political methodology, Demographic forecasting, Oklahoma's Bennie Owen: M

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Gary M. King (born December 8, 1958) is an American political scientist and quantitative methodologist. He is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor and Director for the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. King and his research group develop and apply empirical methods in many areas of social science research, focusing on innovations that span the range from statistical theory to practical application.

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Biography

In 1980, King graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science from the State University of New York at New Paltz. In 1981 he earned an M.A. and in 1984 a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in Madison.

King's career in academia began in 1984, when he became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at New York University. He joined the faculty of Harvard's Department of Government in 1987 and has taught there since. He has also been a visiting fellow at Oxford University. To date, he has authored or coauthored seven books (six published and one forthcoming) and nearly 100 journal articles and book chapters.

King is one of 24 professors with "Harvard's most distinguished faculty title".

He is the step-brother of the sociologist Mitchell Duneier.

Business

King co-founded the data analytics companies Crimson Hexagon and Learning Catalytics. Crimson Hexagon is a social media analytics software company based in Boston, Massachusetts. Learning Catalytics was acquired by Pearson in April 2013.

Honors

  • Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation, 1994-5
  • Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1998
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2004
  • Fellow, American Academy of Political and Social Science 2004
  • Fellow, Society for Political Methodology, 2008 (Gosnell Prize from the Society in 1997 and 1999)
  • Fellow, American Statistical Association 2009
  • Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, 2010
  • Fellow, National Academy of Social Insurance, 2014
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