Amanda Loehrke

Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Political Science
University of California, Davis

Biography

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. My research focuses on American politics and methodology, with particular interests in gender, race & ethnic politics, and media communication. I am interested in how people’s identities influence how they interact in politics from the voter and candidate perspectives. Methodologically, I use computational social science, natural language processing, text as data, and machine learning.

Additionally, I have extensive teaching experience, having served as a teaching assistant for both graduate and undergraduate courses in quantitative methods and American politics and as a teaching assistant for the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods.

Education

Ph.D. in Political Science, 2022–2027 (in progress) | University of California, Davis

B.A. in Political Science, 2021 | University of Wisconsin–Green Bay

Research interests

American Political Behavior | Gender Politics | Race & Ethnic Politics | Media & Political Communication | Computational Social Science | Natural Language Processing | Machine Learning