Wendy K. Tam Cho APSA Candidate Statement

Career and Accomplishments

Wendy K. Tam Cho is associate professor with appointments in the department of political science and the department of statistics and senior research scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has also been a faculty member at Northwestern University. She received her B.A. in political science and mathematics, her M.A. in political science and statistics, and her Ph.D in political science, all from the University of California at Berkeley.  Her scholarly interests lie in the areas of political methodology, American politics, racial/ethnic politics, and computational solutions to social science problems. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, and Political Analysis, among others.

She currently serves on the editorial boards of American Politics Research, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, PS: Political Science and Politics, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, and the Quantitative Methods section of the Political Science Network on SSRN.  She is associate editor of Political Analysis, and has also served as member-at-large for the APSA Section, Society for Political Methodology, program chair of the Methodology Section for several conferences, and as a member of the award committees for the R. H. Durr, Harold Gosnell, and Warren Miller awards.  She has been named to a list of teachers ranked as excellent by their students at the University of Illinois.

Statement of Views

I am committed to methodological breadth and diversity and would bring both of these commitments to my efforts on the APSA executive council.  I would also work to foster interdisciplinary ties and cross-disciplinary research.  I strongly believe that diversity of backgrounds, thoughts, and approaches will propel our vibrancy forward and strength our discipline and research.  If elected to the council, I will work to promote proposals for building bridges within the subfields of political science as well as across to other disciplines.