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Jonathan Colner Assistant Professor SPA | Government

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Jonathan Colner
SPA | Government
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Kerwin Hall
Bio
Jonathan Colner is an assistant professor of Government in the School of Public Affairs. His research interests include local political institutions, causal inference, and machine learning methods for collecting and processing local administrative data. His work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Political Analysis, and PS: Political Science and Politics. Previously, Jonathan was a faculty fellow at NYU's Center for Data Science. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from University of California, Davis, in 2024. See

Teaching

Fall 2025

  • GOVT-321 Congress& Legislative Behavior

  • GOVT-321 Congress& Legislative Behavior