Adeline Y. Lo

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where I hold the Glenn B. & Cleone Orr Hawkins Chair of Political Science. I am also affiliated with the Department of Statistics at UW-Madison.

I research the factors that motivate or mitigate conflict between groups, with an eye towards investigating migrant inclusionary politics. My research has led me to work with and construct tools for observational, text, experimental and network data. I also design statistical tools for inference, prediction and measurement for applied social science data. Recently, I have been working on a larger project dedicated to understanding how modern media, especially television news, represents refugee stories, and how these representations can influence native inclusionary politics. My work has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Experimental Political Science, Political Analysis and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. I serve as an Associate Editor to the journal Political Analysis for the term 2024-2026. You can find my CV here.

I received my Ph.D in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego, my M.A. in Politics from New York University, and my B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Columbia University. Previously I was a visiting assistant professor and faculty affiliate at the Department of Government and Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, a postdoctoral research associate at the Politics Department at Princeton University and a predoctoral visiting scholar at the Statistics Department at Columbia University. Prior to my graduate degrees, I spent time as a legal immigration intern with the International Rescue Committee in NY. My substantive research has led me to conduct field research in Benin and more recently in Germany. At Madison, I am also an affiliate of the UW-Madison Robert & Jean Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies as well as faculty affiliate to the Midwest Workshop in Empirical Political Science. I am faculty director of the Models, Experiments and Data (MEAD) for AY 2024-2025, which is a space created for supporting presentation and discussion of research in or in conjunction with quantitative social sciences at various stages of completion among faculty, outside speakers and graduate students. I also co-organize the Experiments and Politics Workshop with Jonathan Renshon within the workshop, which is a group that specializes in experimental work in the social sciences.

email: aylo (at) wisc.edu // office: 322C North Hall, Madison, WI 53706