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Teppei Yamamoto (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Selection committee: Luke Keele (University of Pennsylvania), Arthur Spirling (New York University), Sunshine Hillygus (Duke University), and Jake Bowers (University of Illinois)
Citation
The Emerging Scholar Committee is pleased to announce Teppei Yamamoto as the 2019 Society for Political Methodology Emerging Scholar Award recipient. Teppei’s contributions to the field of political methodology are impressive and broad ranging, encompassing scholarship, leadership, and institution-building. Teppei received his PhD in political science from Princeton in 2011 and is currently the Alfred Henry and Jean Morrison Hayes Career Development Chair at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has published important contributions to methodology in Political Analysis, Journal of the American Statistical Association, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, and the American Political Science Review. In addition, he has co-developed R packages relating to causal mediation analysis (mediation) and the analysis of conjoint experiments (cjoint). Teppei has made particularly important contributions to methods for causal mediation analysis and the analysis of conjoint experiments. All of Teppei’s work contain new methods that can be taken seriously by methodologists and statisticians across disciplines and be readily applicable to empirical research in political science. Another important feature of his work is that it directly addresses the methodological needs of applied researchers. His work and service have recognized through multiple awards. He has been the recipient of the Warren Miller Prize, the Statistical Software Award, Political Analysis Editor's Choice Award, and the John T. Williams Dissertation Prize. He has been an active member of the Society for Political Methodology, a frequent participant in the summer meeting, a member of Political Analysis editorial board, and is part of the organizing committee for the 2019 meeting.