http://gking.harvard.edu/
Gary King is the David Florence Professor of Government in the Department of Government (in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences) at Harvard University. He also serves as Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. King and his research group develop statistical and other methods for, and conduct diverse applications in, many areas of social science research, focusing on innovations that span the range from statistical theory to practical application. For more information, see his short bio and curriculum vitae.
Short Bio (& Curriculum Vitae)
Gary King (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984) is the David Florence Professor of Government at Harvard University. He also serves as Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science.
King has been elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2004), Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998), Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2004), President of the Society for Political Methodology (1997-1999), and Vice President of the American Political Science Association (2003-2004). He was also appointed a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation (1994-1995), Visiting Fellow at Oxford (1994), and Senior Science Advisor to the World Health Organization (1998-2003). King has won the McGraw-Hill Award (2006), the Durr Award (2005), the Gosnell Prize (1999 and 1997), the Outstanding Statistical Application Award (2000), the Donald Campbell Award (1997), the Eulau Award (1995), the Mills Award (1993), the Pi Sigma Alpha Award (2005, 1998, and 1993), the APSA Research Software Award (2005, 1997, 1994, and 1992), the Okidata Best Research Software Award (1999), and the Okidata Best Research Web Site Award (1999), among others. His more than 100 journal articles, 10 public domain software packages, and 7 books span most aspects of political methodology, many fields of political science, and several other scholarly disciplines.
King's work is cited widely across scholarly fields and beyond academia. His work on legislative redistricting has been used in most American states by legislators, judges, lawyers, political parties, minority groups, and private citizens, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court. His work on ecological inference has been used in as many states by these groups, and in many other practical contexts. His contribution to methods for achieving cross-cultural comparability in survey research have been used in surveys in over eighty countries by researchers, governments, and private concerns.
The statistical methods and software he developed for many problems are used extensively in academia, government, consulting, and private industry.
King has had many students and postdocs, many of whom now hold faculty positions at leading universities. He has collaborated with more than sixty scholars, including many of his students, on research for publication. He has served on 21 editorial boards; on the governing councils of the American Political Science Association, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, the Society for Political Methodology, and the Midwest Political Science Association; and on several National Research Council and National Science Foundation panels.
King's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, the National Institute of Aging, the Global Forum for Health Research, and centers, corporations, foundations, and other federal agencies.