Ramon Michael Alvarez (born 1964) is professor of political science at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), as well as the co-director of the Voting Technology Project, a joint Caltech- Massachusetts Institute of Technology initiative.

Education

Alvarez received his B.A. ''

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'' from

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in 1986, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

in 1990 and 1992, respectively, all in political science.

Career

Alvarez served as a Robert S. Rankin Instructor of American Politics at Duke for one year (1991–92), after which he joined Caltech in 1992 as assistant professor of political science. In February 2002, he became a tenured full professor at Caltech.

Honors and awards

In 2002, Alvarez received the Emerging Scholar Award from the

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's Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section. In 2004, Alvarez was one of 50 recipients of the " Scientific American 50" award. He was named in the "50 Award" computing category, alongside

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. He was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018.

References

External links

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