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Olivia Lau

 

Olivia Lau

Graduate Student
[ Curriculum Vitae ]
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Phone:
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 olau@fas.harvard.edu
(617) 496-3798
G5
 IQSS / Harvard University
1737 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~olau
Major Field: International Relations
Advisors: Gary King, Jeff Frieden, Kevin Quinn

Biographical Note:

I am a fifth year student in the Ph.D. program in the Department of Government at Harvard University. I passed my general exams in June, 2004 in international relations, political methodology, and political theory. My research interests include political economy, institutions and economic growth, and political methodology. I will be leading the senior thesis writers workshops for International Relations in the 2006-7 academic year. In Spring 2005, I was the head teaching fellow for Gov 1780 with Jeff Frieden. In Fall 2004, I was the teaching fellow for Gov 2001. In addition, I work with Gary King at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science on Zelig, an open-source package and teaching tool for R.