People: Research Faculty
Christopher Fariss
Faculty Associate
Appointments
Faculty Associate, Center for Political Studies
Assistant Professor, LSA Political Science
Degree
PhD Political Science 2013 University of California, San Diego
Other
Christopher Fariss’s Website & Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Christopher Fariss’s Google Scholar Profile
Research
Christopher Fariss’ core research interest is in the politics of human rights, violence, and repression. He uses computational methods to understand why governments around the world choose to torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction. Other projects cover a broad array of themes, ranging from foreign aid to American voting behavior, but share a focus on computationally intensive methods and research design. These methodological tools, essential for analyzing “big data”, open up new insights into the micro-foundations of state repression.
Contact
Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan
Room 4248, 426 Thompson Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104–2321, United States
Phone: 734–763–2716
Fax: 734–764–3341
Email: [email protected]
University of Michigan Online Directory listing
Selected Publications
Please also see Christopher Fariss’ Website & Curriculum Vitae (CV) or Christopher Fariss’s Google Scholar Profile.
Fariss, Christopher J. and Zachary M. Jones. “Enhancing External Validity in Observational Settings When Replication is Not Possible” Political Science Research and Methods (Conditionally Accepted).
Bond, Robert M., Christopher J. Fariss, Jason J. Jones, Jaime E. Settle, and James H. Fowler. “Social Endorsement Cues and Political Participation in an Experiment Involving 61 Million Facebook Users” Political Communication (Forthcoming).
Dancy, Geoff and Christopher J. Fariss. “Rescuing Human Rights Law from International Legalism and Its Critics” Human Rights Quarterly (Forthcoming).
Fariss, Christopher J. “Are Things Really Getting Better?: How To Validate Latent Variable Models of Human Rights” British Journal of Political Science (Forthcoming).
Fariss, Christopher J. “The Changing Standard of Accountability and the Positive Relationship between Human Rights Treaty Ratification and Compliance” British Journal of Political Science (Forthcoming).