David Glick

Faculty Associate
Faculty Research Fellow (2016-2019)
Assistant Professor, Political Science
dmglick@bu.edu
617-358-4645

Education

PhD, Princeton University, Bachelor’s, Williams College

Biography

David Glick is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Boston University. His primary research and teaching interests include political institutions – especially courts, public opinion about institutions, policy diffusion, law, and urban politics. He has also co-developed and taught a course about all of the politics, policy, and social science in HBO’s the Wire (named “coolest class to take at BU” by Boston.com). His work has appeared (or will be appearing soon) in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Political Behavior, Public Opinion Quarterly, American Politics Research, and the Journal of Theoretical Politics. It has been recognized by the APSA Law and Courts section (best grad student paper, best journal article), Urban Politics section (best conference paper) and Western Political Science Association (best conference paper). He is currently studying the interaction of public opinion, the Supreme Court, and major recent cases using data from panel surveys that he collected with BU colleague Dino Christenson. He is also studying urban politics and policy with his colleague Katie Einstein. Part of this work includes being one of the lead investigators on Boston University’s Menino Survey of Mayors.

Glick grew up near Boston. Before graduate school at Princeton he was an undergraduate at Williams College and worked in Cambridge for two years as a strategy consultant with the Monitor Group. He also spent two years as a fellow at the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth. He spends much of his free time staying active, and doing amateur home improvement projects. He plays quite a bit of basketball (pickup with college kids) and soccer (in a Sunday morning “over 30” league).