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Faculty Profiles
ISR’s faculty experts conduct groundbreaking and wide-ranging social science research — representing more than 20 academic disciplines. Included below are two examples of the type of work being done by members of our team.
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jay winkler
Assistant Archivist, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, Institute for Social Research
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Frederick G Conrad
Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Program Director, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, Professor of Psychology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Information, School of Information
Dr. Conrad is a survey methodologist whose recent work has focused on respondents' understanding of survey questions. He also studies … more
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