Taylor Boas

Taylor Boas was selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow beginning in fall 2013. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at BU, which he joined after receiving his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009. His research examines various aspects of electoral politics in Latin America, including campaigns, political communication, voting behavior, and religion and politics, and involves a variety of methods, such as online survey experiments and the statistical analysis of electoral data. Professor Boas has played a lead role in developing interdepartmental programs for training social science graduate students in quantitative methods. Prior to starting at BU, he was a visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame.