Loren Collingwood

About me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Washington studying American politics, specifically campaigns and elections, political behavior, race and ethnicity, and quantitative methodology. My dissertation, "The Pursuit of Victory and Incorporation: Elite Strategy, Group Pressure, and Cross Racial Mobilization," focuses on when and how candidates mobilize members of different races. In addition, I am working on several projects on negative television advertising, Latino representation, race of interviewer effects in telephone surveys, and text classification using supervised learning methods. I work with the Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Sexuality (WISER), the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS), and the Center for American Politics and Public Policy (CAPPP). I also work with the Washington Survey Research Center (WASRC), where I play a key role in conducting the annual Washington Poll.

Hobbies and Interests: Marathons, triathlons, playing soccer, data analysis using R, coding, traveling, backpacking, and reading.