Jonathan N. Katz

Kay Sugahara Professor of Social Sciences and Statistics and Chair of the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. Director of the Ronald and Maxine Linde Institute of Economic and Management Sciences. Focuses on development of statistical methods for the social sciences and their empirical applications, particularly on questions about elections and the evaluation of public policy. Develops methods for time-series cross-sectional data that now appear in textbooks and statistical analysis software. Co-authored journal paper in the American Political Science Review (1995) that created panel-corrected standard errors, now the standard by which errors are corrected in certain panel studies. Elbridge Gerry's Salamander: The Electoral Consequences of the Reapportionment Revolution (2002) demonstrates the key impact of redistricting to understanding modern congressional elections, especially competition between the major political parties. His findings have been cited in several legal cases and a Supreme Court decision. Co-editor of Political Analysis, Editor for Quantitative Methods at the Political Science Network. Awarded the Pi Sigma Alpha Award and the CQ Press Award.