Job Market Materials

AY 2027–28

Job market materials packet for Alex Newhouse, PhD candidate in Political Science at CU Boulder.

On the academic job market · 2027–28

This page collects everything a search committee, chair, or recruiter needs in one link. For anything else, please email me.

At a glance

  • Field: Political Science (Comparative Politics + Methodology)
  • Subfields: Computational social science, political violence, technology & politics
  • Methods: Transformer NLP, social network analysis, time-series causal inference
  • Advisors: Andrew Q. Philips & Jennifer Fitzgerald (co-chairs); Alexandra Siegel; Brian Keegan (Information Science, external)
  • Expected defense: May 2028
  • Available to start: Fall 2028

Job market paper

“‘The Happening Is Coming’: Apocalyptic Rhetoric on 4chan Following Mass Casualty Attacks”

A transformer classifier and intervention-analysis study of 11 years of 4chan /pol/ posts, showing that online apocalyptic rhetoric spikes in the immediate aftermath of mass-casualty terrorist attacks. Evidence of a feedback loop between digital communities and offline violence.

Presented at APSA 2025. Full PDF available on request — email me.

Materials

References

Available on request — please email me and I will arrange introductions.

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