Christopher Adolph

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Christopher Adolph is Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he is also Adjunct Professor of Statistics and a member of the core faculty of the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan and is a regular instructor in the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis. He is the faculty lead for the COVID-19 State Policy Project, a team of political scientists and public health researchers at the University of Washington tracking and analyzing social distancing and mask policies across the U.S. states during 2020-2021.

Christopher Adolph is the author of Bankers, Bureaucrats, and Central Bank Politics: The Myth of Neutrality (Cambridge University Press), winner of the International Political Science Association's Charles H. Levine Prize for best contribution in comparative policy and administration. His research on comparative political economy, health policy, and quantitative methods has appeared in American Political Science Review, JAMA, The Lancet, Nature Medicine, Perspectives on Politics, Political Analysis, Social Science & Medicine, World Development, and other journals.