Snapshot

Terms and Dates:

  • Academic Year 2024-25
One Time Opportunity

Advisor:

Meg Ross

This Opportunity is Currently in Draft

Overview

Opportunity Description

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University – the world’s largest public opinion data archive – has one Graduate Assistantship available for the 9-month, 2024-25 academic year. Pre and post A-Exam Doctoral candidates matriculated at Cornell University are eligible to apply. Applicants should have research and/or analysis experience working with public opinion, survey, or other similar types of data. Dissertation research that relates to the study of public opinion is preferred.

Graduate Assistants (GAs) at Roper Center contribute to the field of public opinion research, public policy formation, and scholarly collaboration and advancement by supporting the rigorous standards for research data inclusion and dissemination employed by the Center.  GAs play an instrumental role in the preparation and processing of archived data.  Working directly with the Director of Data Operations and Communications, GAs assist with the preparation of new data received from a variety of public opinion sources and the processing of older data requested by the user community.

The Mitofsky Graduate Assistantship provides a full year of PhD funding including tuition, stipend and healthcare.

Duties will most likely include:

  • Cleaning and harmonizing data
  • Writing syntax to read and translate ASCII data files
  • Performing basic statistical analyses
  • Proofreading data labels
  • Participating in other archive-related projects

Applications are due by February 9, 2024 - send letter of intent listing at least one faculty reference, current CV and current transcript to mfr47@cornell.edu.