Josh McCrain portrait
  • Director, Policing Accountability and Policy Evaluation Research Lab
  • Assistant Professor, Political Science Department

Professional Service

  • Policing Accountability and Policy Evaluation Research Lab. Director. 01/01/2024 - present
  • National Science Foudnation. Grant Reviewer. 10/01/2023 - 10/31/2023
  • Policing Accountability and Policy Evaluation Research Lab. Yearly conference co-organizer. 02/01/2023 - present
  • State Politics and Policy APSA Section. State Politics and Policy Career Achievement Award Committee. 10/01/2022 - 05/01/2023
  • Junior Americanist Workshop Series. Conference organizer, MPSA 2023. 08/01/2022 - 04/15/2023
  • MPSA. Best Paper in American Politics Awards Committee. 12/01/2021 - 03/01/2022
  • Junior Americanist Workshop Series. Co-founder and co-organizer. 08/01/2020 - present
  • Political Networks Section, American Political Science Association. John Sprague Award Committee. 01/01/2019 - 09/07/2019

Internal Service

  • Politics Research Colloquium Speaker Series. Organizer, 08/01/2022 - present. Department service.
  • Co-Organizer, Interdisciplinary Methods Colloquium. Founder and Co-Organizer, 08/01/2022 - 01/11/2023. College service.
  • American Politics Workshop. Co-Organizer, 02/01/2022 - present. Department service.

Honors & Awards

  • Measuring Community Perceptions Competition, Fifth place ($2500). National Institute of Justice, 12/01/2023
  • Class and Inequality Section, Best Poster in Economic Inequality. American Political Science Association, 09/2019
  • Pi Sigma Alpha Award for Best Overall Paper (with Gregory Martin). Midwest Political Science Association, 04/2019
  • Best Paper in American Politics Award (with Gregory Martin). Midwest Political Science Association, 04/2019
  • Malcolm Jewell Award for Best Graduate Student Paper. Southern Political Science Association, 01/2019
  • Political Networks Section, John Sprague Award for Best Graduate Student Paper. American Political Science Association, 09/2018

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