Biography

Graeme Blair is an associate professor of political science at UCLA. He uses experiments, field research, and statistics to study how to reduce violence and how to make social science more credible, ethical, and useful. Blair recently served as Co-Director of Training and Methods of Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP). His book Research Design in the Social Sciences was published in 2023 by Princeton University Press and won the best book award from the American Political Science Association Experiments Section. Blair’s second book, Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing: Experiments on Building Trust, was published in 2024 with Cambridge University Press in the Studies in Comparative Politics series. His articles are published in journals including Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, and Political Analysis. He is the recipient of awards including the Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Open Social Science and the Society for Political Methodology best statistical software award, and received an honorable mention for best paper in comparative politics by the American Political Science Association.