Analyzing Peer and Mentor Networks in Political Science Through the Acknowledgements Sections of Dissertations

• In Event: Assessing Graduate Studies in Political Science

Brief Overview

We present an ongoing project that analyzes disciplinary networks through dissertation acknowledgements. We discuss early findings gender representation in the corpus, but intend the data collected to be used to answer other questions as well.

Authors

• Amanda Sahar d'Urso, Northwestern University

• Samuel Robert Gubitz, Northwestern University

• Kumar Ramanathan, Northwestern University