Jeff Gill

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Dr. Jeff Gill

Nationality	United States
Field	Political Science
Institutions	Washington University in St. Louis University of Florida
Alma mater	UCLA Georgetown University American University

Jeff Gill is a Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis and the Director of the Center for Applied Statistics. He is also Vice President of the Society for Political Methodology. Major areas of research and interest include: Political Methodology, American Politics, Statistical Computing, Research Methods, and Public Administration. Current research is focused on projects such as Bayesian hierarchical models, Markov chain Monte Carlo theory, bureaucratic behavior in national security agencies, and issues in political epidemiology. He recently completed Essential Mathematics for Political and Social Research, with Cambridge University Press. and is the author of five other books including the forthcoming second edition of Bayesian Methods for the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Chapman & Hall/CRC), which is the leading Bayesian text for these disciplines. His journal work has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Journal of Politics, Electoral Studies, Statistical Science, Political Research Quarterly, Sociological Methods and Research, Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Journal of Statistical Software, Political Analysis, and others.

Gill was Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard University 2006-2007 and has been Affiliate Professor of Statistics at the University of Florida since 2001.