Amber Ellen Boydstun is an American
political scientist and
data scientist
Data science is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge and insights from noisy, structured and unstructured data, and apply knowledge from data across a bro ...
. She is a professor and director of graduate studies at the
University of California, Davis.
Life
Boydstun was born to Faye Ellen Ashley.
Her paternal grandmother Janie Trevarton and her mother Janie Hughes helped maintain a farm and family.
Boydstun's maternal grandmother, Marion Ashley (née DeWolf) was a military wife and homemaker.
She completed a B.A. in philosophy and mathematics from
St. John's College in 1999.
Following graduation, she tutored mathematics at the
Native American Preparatory School for a semester. She earned a M.A. (2004) and Ph.D. (2008) in political science from the
Penn State Graduate School.
Her dissertation was titled, ''How Policy Issues Become Front-Page News''.
Frank Baumgartner
Frank Baumgartner is an American political scientist, currently the Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and formerly the Distinguished Professor and Bruce R. Miller and Dean D. LaVigne ...
was Boydstun's doctoral advisor.
Boydstun researches the interaction between media and politics.
She joined
University of California, Davis in 2008 as an assistant professor.
She codeveloped a smartphone
app
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for students to react to the
2012 United States presidential debates
The bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) held four debates for the 2012 U.S. presidential general election, slated for various locations around the United States in October 2012 – three of them involving the major party preside ...
in real time. Boydstun was promoted to associate professor in 2015 and professor of political science in 2020.
She is the director of
graduate studies.
She is the chief data scientist of the diversity lab.
Selected works
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References
External links
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
American women political scientists
American political scientists
Women data scientists
American data scientists
21st-century American women scientists
St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) alumni
Pennsylvania State University alumni
University of California, Davis faculty
21st-century political scientists