John Ahlquist

Session: Alumni Panel
CSSS Track: Political Science, 2008

John Ahlquist is a professor of political economy in UC San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy. He is also a founding faculty member of UCSD's Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute.  In addition to substantive courses on labor and social welfare policy, Ahlquist teaches a Masters'-level Introduction to Data Science for Public Policy as well as a PhD-level courses on the generalized linear model and survey methods. His past research has appeared in numerous scholarly outlets, including the American Economic Journal (policy), American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Daedalus, and Political Analysis. He is the co-author of two books, In the Interest of Others (2013) and Maximum Likelihood Strategies for Social Science (2018). Prior to joining UC San Diego, Ahlquist held faculty positions at the University of Wisconsin—Madison and Florida State University. Ahlquist completed the political science CSSS track during his PhD at the University of Washington, graduating in 2008. John Ahlquist's website.