Amanda Weiss
Assistant Professor, Government
Academic focus:
Political methodology
Current research project:
Challenges with deploying modern causal inference methods in real-world data.
Academic background:
- Ph.D., Political science, Yale University, 2025
- M.A., Statistics, Yale University, 2024
- M.Phil., Political science, Yale University, 2023
- M.S.S.W., Policy practice, Columbia University, 2020
- B.A, Art history, Columbia University, 2017
Last book read:
“The Magician,” Colm Tóibín
In your own time/when not working:
I can be found walking my dog, baking or running.
Courses you’re most looking forward to teaching:
I am especially excited to start teaching my seminar on Analysis of Natural Experiments (GOVT 4000/6129) and, in the spring, to start teaching in the graduate quantitative methods sequence.
What most excites you about Cornell:
I’m thrilled to be part of a community that is so curious and open across subfields. I was blown away, when I first visited Cornell, by the enthusiasm of faculty and students for new ideas and ways of thinking about and conducting research in the social sciences.
