{"id":8641,"date":"2020-10-25T19:55:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T23:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=8641"},"modified":"2025-07-08T20:23:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T00:23:48","slug":"maxwell-palmer","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/profile\/maxwell-palmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxwell Palmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Teaching:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fall 2024<strong>:<\/strong> PO 399, <em>Data Science for Politics<\/em>; PO 540,\u00a0<em>Prohibition<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Spring 2025: PO 336, <em>Voting Rights<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Areas of Specialization:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>American Political Institutions<\/li>\n<li>Congress and Legislatures<\/li>\n<li>Redistricting and Election Law<\/li>\n<li>Local Politics and Housing<\/li>\n<li>Data Science<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maxwell Palmer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/people\/fellowships\/civic-tech-fellows\/\">Civic Tech Fellow<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0Faculty of Computing &amp; Data Sciences, and a Faculty Fellow at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/\">Initiative on Cities<\/a>. He joined the Department and Boston University in 2014, after receiving his Ph.D. in Political Science at Harvard University. He studies <span>American political institutions, focusing on Congress, electoral institutions, and local government. His research examines how institutional arrangements and rules impact representation and policy outcomes.\u00a0<\/span>Prof. Palmer also works as a consultant and expert witness on questions about voting rights, redistricting, and representation.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Palmer teaches courses in American Politics and Political Methodology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Information:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/maxwellpalmer.com\/mpalmer_cv.pdf\">Curriculum Vitae<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/maxwellpalmer.com\/\">Personal Home Page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18783,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18783"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10906,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8641\/revisions\/10906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}