Assistant Professor Shawn Treier
Postdoctoral Fellow
Shawn Treier is Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota and received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. His research interests include the U.S. Constitutional Convention and American Political Development, the U.S. Congress, political behavior and public opinion, and Bayesian measurement models.
His work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Political Analysis, Public Opinion Quarterly, and American Politics Research.
During his Postdoctoral Fellowship he will be writing a book manuscript on the U.S. Constitutional Convention. This work, co-authored with Jeremy C. Pope, characterizes the issues that defined the debates at the Convention, the positions taken by the Convention delegates on these issues, and the economic, social and ideological factors that determined their positions.
