Research Opportunities

Undergraduates can take advantage of opportunities to participate in the latest research happening in the world of political science. Gov92r allows you to conduct research in the Government department for academic credit. It is graded SAT/UNSAT. If you are interested in any of these projects, please contact the supervisors directly. You will need to submit the Gov 92r form (available here) to Karen Kaletka before you can register for the course on my.harvard.

Fall 2025

Prof. Stephen Chaudoin

Corpus Churn
This project will investigate the underlying corpus for several prominently used text-as-data sources. Corpus churn refers to changes over time in the coverage of sources, such as newspapers or other outlets. This is largely unacknowledged, even though the problem is likely severe and likely affects many downstream analyses. This project will attempt to describe the severity of the problem, its implications, and build diagnostics and sensitivity testing for researchers hoping to use larger text-as-data corpuses.
Prerequisites (courses and/or methodological skills):  Must be able to use R for data set management, visualization, and analyses.
Contact: If you’re interested, send a CV and a short paragraph on why this project interests you to: chaudoin@fas.harvard.edu