Miles D. Williams

Welcome!

I am a political scientist and Visiting Assistant Professor in Data for Political Research at Denison University. I also serve as an Associate Fellow in statistical methodology with the US General Service Administration’s Office of Evaluation Sciences (OES). I earned my Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

I specialize in International Relations and Political Economy and teach courses on International Relations, statistical programming, and data visualization. I have conducted research on a range of topics, but I’m primarily interested in the geoeconomics of foreign aid—how foreign aid is used as a tool of statecraft by world powers to achieve their foreign policy goals and how the pursuit of these goals drive cooperation problems among Western and non-Western aid donor governments. I also have an interest in methodology, policy research, text-as-data, and novel applications of machine learning for causal inference.

I have been a contributor to the Religion in Public blog, written evaluation resources for the federal government on reporting statistical results and on best-practices for using multinomial tests, and I occasionally like to write about miscellaneous issues on statistical programming and methods on my personal blog.

Interests

International Relations
Political Economy
Game Theory
Statistical Methods
Machine Learning
Causal Inference

Education

PhD in Political Science, 2022

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MA in Political Science, 2016

Eastern Illinois University
BA in History and Political Science; Philosophy, 2015

Greenville University

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