Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, University of Michigan
Greater Detroit Area
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- Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science at University of Michigan
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- Technical Consultant at Free and Fair Election Network
- Technical Consultant at The Asia Foundation
- Manatt Democracy Studies Fellow at International Foundation for Election Systems
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- University of Michigan
- Wake Forest University
- IIMCR
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Megan Reif’s Summary
Megan Reif is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the University of Michigan completing a dissertation on election violence and a certificate in Spatial Analysis and Geographic Information Systems. Her research addresses relationships between institutions, democratization, and political violence and terrorism. She has conducted dissertation fieldwork in Algeria, Pakistan, and Newark, New Jersey. She designed and authored The Asia Foundation’s Pakistan Voter Education Survey and worked with Pakistan’s Free and Fair Election Network, supervising its election violence media monitoring effort and qualitative and quantitative analysis for its Parallel Vote Tabulation of the 2008 National Assembly election. Previously she was a Charles Manatt Democracy Studies Fellow at the International Foundation for Election Systems, working with the Election Violence Education and Resolution Program. Reif observed both rounds of Indonesia’s 2004 presidential election as part of The Carter Center’s Election Observation Mission. She has co-taught survey methodology courses in Algeria and Oman. She also conducted research on the interaction of the Taliban, the international community, and Islamist political parties in Afghanistan and Pakistan as a U.S. Fulbright Fellow and as an associate at the Afghanistan Foundation. She worked at The Carter Center, handling foundation and bilateral donor relationships for international disease eradication and agriculture programs in Sudan, North Korea, sub-Saharan Africa, and South America as Associate Director of Development for Health Programs.
Reif is a Truman Scholar and holds a BA in Politics from Wake Forest University and a MA in Political Science from the University of Michigan with a cognate field in Middle East and Islamic Studies.
Megan Reif’s Specialties:
Survey methodology in cross-cultural settings (questionnaire & form design, pilot testing, fieldwork, interviewer training, data entry systems & analysis), managing large-N quantitative data collection projects, Epi-Info Databases, Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis, Multivariate Analysis (Stata, SPSS), Spatial Statistics (Geographically-weighted regression, geostatistics, ArcGIS, GSLIB), democracy and conflict in the Muslim world
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Megan Reif’s Interests:
Election administration and observation, survey research, grant-writing, post-election conflict, political violence and terrorism, political corruption, Islam and politics, Middle Eastern Dance, photography, world music
