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Austin Hart Associate Professor SIS | Politics, Governance & Economics

Contact
[email protected]
SIS | Politics, Governance & Economics
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW 345
School of International Service
Th/Fr 1-3pm
Degrees
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin (Government)
B.A. University of Kansas (Economics and Political Science)

Bio

Austin Hart is a political scientist studying democratic accountability and how political attitudes form and change over time. Dr. Hart is the author of two books with Cambridge University Press as well as multiple peer-reviewed articles.

Dr. Hart is the Chair of the Department of Politics, Governance, and Economics. He teaches courses in quantitative statistical methods and data analysis at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Read more at Dr. Hart's personal website.

See Also
Personal website
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Teaching

Fall 2025

  • SIS-806 Quantitative Methods in IR

  • SIS-899 Doctoral Dissertation

  • SISU-306 Adv Int'l Studies Research: Large Sample Data Analysis

Spring 2026

  • SIS-750 Res/Prof Meth in Int'l Affairs: Data Analysis

  • SIS-899 Doctoral Dissertation