Eric G. Scheuch

PhD Candidate in Political Science, Yale University

Social Data Scientist, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

Researcher, Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies

Welcome! I am a 4th year PhD Candidate in Political Science at Yale, with a focus on American Politics and Quantitative Research Methods. My research focuses on climate change, public opinion, judicial politics, and the urban-rural political divide. At Yale, I work as a social data scientist for the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and as a graduate researcher at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, where I am affiliated with the Center for the Study of American Politics and the American Political Economy Exchange. My work has been published or is in press in Urban Affairs Review, Energy Research and Social Science, American Politics Research, Climatic Change, Nature Social Science Communications, Current Opinion in the Behavioral Sciences, Global Environmental Psychology, and PLOS Climate. Frequent collaborators include Jacob Hacker, Paul Pierson, Amelia Malpas, Matthew H. Goldberg, Laura Thomas-Walters and Anthony Leiserowitz. 

Prior to Yale, I worked on solving startup scaling challenges at a startup in NYC. I earned my BA (Cum Laude) in Political Science (Departmental Honors) and Sustainable Development from Columbia University, where I earned the Charles Beard Prize for my thesis on the politics of climate mitigation. I spend my spare time trail running and hiking with my spouse and my dog.