Christopher Lucas
Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis
Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Lucas is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and a computational social scientist at Washington University in St. Louis who develops and applies methods to analyze political media across text, audio, image, and video. With a PhD from Harvard and over a decade of experience bridging political methodology and data science, his work appears in top journals like APSR, AJPS, Political Analysis, and Science. He has won the Society of Political Methodology’s Gosnell Prize twice and his research regularly reaches popular outlets from National Geographic to Le Monde. Beyond traditional scholarship, he builds practical tools and models for large multimodal political datasets, combining methodological rigor with reproducible, code-driven workflows.
11 years of coding experience
AM, Government, AM, Government at Harvard UniversityBachelor of Arts (BA), Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Political Science at Lipscomb University
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Github Skills (48)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ChristopherLucas/translateR
May 2015 - Sep 2018
R Package for Cross-Language Topic Modeling
Contributions:8 pushes, 5 comments, 1 issue in 3 years 5 months
nlpr-packagecross-languagetopic-modelingmodeling
ChristopherLucas/transcribeR
Jul 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch, 11 comments in 2 years 8 months
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