Clifford CarrubbaDepartment Chair | Data & Decision Sciences Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor | Political Science

Dr. Carrubba earned his PhD from Stanford University in 1998 and previously served as an assistant professor at SUNY–Stony Brook. In addition to his role at Emory, he currently serves as the director of the Centre for the Study of Law, Politics and Economics. His specialization is in comparative legislative and judicial politics, comparative institutions, European politics, and game theory. Current research projects include studies of legislative behavior and roll-call vote analysis, the design and change of judicial institutions (with application to the European Court of Justice), and statistical tests of game theoretical models.

Clifford Carrubba was the founding director of The Institute for Quantitative Theory and Methods (IQTM), which was later renamed the Department of Data & Decision Sciences (DD&S). In his role as founding director, Dr. Carrubba worked closely with the Dean of the College and other senior administrators on priorities and direction, such as joint hiring, outreach and fundraising, curriculum development and implementation, and other DD&S extracurricular programming. His main accomplishments in the role were:

1. Rapid and effective implementation. Since 2011, DD&S has developed four majors and one minor (2018-2019). Projected to be among three largest majors on campus
2. Extensive interdisciplinary partnerships. DD&S has engaged in substantial joint hiring with departments including Biology, Computer Science, English, Economics, Political Science, and Sociology. DD&S's undergraduate programs span 16 college units in the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and business school
3. Departmental Transition. As DD&S's founding director, Dr. Carrubba oversaw the transition from Institute to Department in Fall 2019.