Leadership
B. Pablo Montagnes
Co-Director of the Center for Civic Reasoning, Associate Professor of Data and Decision Sciences and Political Science
B. Pablo Montagnes is the co-director of the Center for Civic Reasoning and Associate Professor of Data and Decision Sciences and Political Science at Emory University. Montagnes holds a Ph.D. in Managerial Economics and Strategy from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Montagnes's primary research focus is formal political theory and political economy. His articles have been published in a number of leading journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Economic Review, American Political Science Review, the Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Politics, and Management Science.
Zachary Peskowitz
Co-Director of the Center for Civic Reasoning, Masse-Martin NEH Professor of Political Science
Zachary Peskowitz is the co-director of the Center for Civic Reasoning and Masse-Martin NEH Professor of Political Science at Emory University, where he conducts research on elections and public policy in the United States. Peskowitz received his PhD in Political Economics from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2012. During the 2020-21 academic year, he was the W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow and Starr Foundation Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His articles have been published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and other journals. Peskowitz teaches courses on public policy, elections, and statistical methods at the undergraduate and graduate level. His research and analysis have received coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, among other publications and he is regularly quoted in international, national, and local print, radio, and television outlets.
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Co-Director of the Center for Civic Reasoning, Associate Professor of Data and Decision Sciences and Political Science
Co-Director of the Center for Civic Reasoning, Masse-Martin NEH Professor of Political Science