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Sono Shah

Computational Social Scientist

Pew Research Center

Hello!

I’m Sono Shah! I am currently a Computational Social Scientist with the Data Labs team at Pew Research Center. My work is available here. I received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California Riverside.

My prior experience includes working as a researcher at AAPI Data, making data Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders more accessible and fielding public opinion surveys like the National Asian American Survey. In addition, I worked as a researcher for the Center for Social Innovation at UCR, where I helped coordinate outreach efforts for the Inland Empire in preparation for Census 2020 and the production of their State of the Inland Empire report series.

My research interests include the application of computational social science methods to studying the politics of race & ethnicity, representation, and political behavior in the U.S. My academic work includes research on Asian American political attitudes and behavior, the role of elite rhetoric, and civic participation and political engagement.

My email address is sonoshah [at] gmail.com

Interests

  • Computational Social Science
  • Racial & Ethnic Politics
  • Asian American Politics
  • Campaigns & Elections
  • Data Visualization

Recent Publications

Ben Newman, Jennifer Merolla, Sono Shah, Danielle Lemi, Loren Collingwood, Karthick Ramakrishnan (2019). The Trump Effect: Experimental Investigation into the Emboldening Effect. British Journal of Political Science (forthcoming).

Benjamin J Newman, Sono Shah, Loren Collingwood (2018). Race, place, and building a base: Latino population growth and the nascent trump campaign for president. Public Opinion Quarterly.

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Benjamin J Newman, Sono Shah, Erinn Lauterbach (2018). Who sees an hourglass? Assessing citizens’ perception of local economic inequality. Research & Politics.

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Karthick Ramakrishnan, Sono Shah (2016). Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Voluntarism/Voting Gap. New Advances in the Study of Civic Voluntarism: Resources, Engagement, and Recruitment.

John Dobard, Kim Engie, Karthick Ramakrishnan, Sono Shah (2016). Unequal Voices: California's Racial Disparities in Political Participation.

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Research in Progress

Sono Shah, Janelle Wong (2019). Asian American Attitudes toward Undocumented Immigrants and Immigration Policies. Under review.

Sono Shah (2019). Donor Preferences for Coethnic Representation, breaking the mold or more the same?. In preparation for submission.

Sono Shah, Maneesh Arora, Shuba Prasad (2019). How to Win Friends and Influence People: Strategic Contributions of the Indian Lobby. In preparation for submission.

email: sono.shah@email.ucr.edu
url: http://www.sonoshah.com
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github: sonoshah
twitter: @imsonoshah
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