Rachel Bernhard

I am Associate Professor of Quantitative Political Science Research Methods at Nuffield College and the University of Oxford. Before joining Nuffield, I served as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. I hold a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a Postdoctoral Prize Fellow in Politics at Nuffield.

I am currently working on a book project on appearance-based discrimination in politics, and have recently taught classes on political psychology and public policy, identity politics, statistics and research design, women in politics, and computational methods.

Before I started graduate school, I worked for a few years in public health and education.

Teaching

Previous courses taught include: 

• Political Psychology and Public Policy (UC Berkeley graduates, Fall 2021)

• Identity and Discrimination in US Politics (UC Davis graduates, Fall 2019, Spring 2022; Davis undergraduates, Winter 2021, Spring 2022)

• Introduction to Computational Tools for Social Scientists (Berkeley graduates, Fall 2016 and Spring 2018; Oxford graduates, Trinity 2019; Davis graduates, Winter 2021)

• The Scientific Study of Politics (Davis undergraduates, Winter 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2022)

• Women in US Politics (Davis undergraduates, Winter 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2022)

• Political Psychology (Berkeley undergraduates, Fall 2015)

• Elections and Democratic Accountability (Berkeley undergraduates, Spring 2015)

• Introduction to Research Design and Methodology (Berkeley undergraduates, Fall 2014)