Samuel Bestvater

Samuel Bestvater

Graduate Student

About Samuel Bestvater

Samuel E. Bestvater is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science, studying Comparative Politics and Political Methodology. His research interests center around contentious politics and political participation, with a specific focus on social movements, their outcomes, and their downstream effects on political behavior. Sam has a methodological specialization in quantitative and computational research methods, with a particular interest in big data and social media applications for social science research. For the 2017-2018 academic year, he serves as co-president of the Political Science Graduate Student Association.