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\fancyhead[L]{Carson, \textit{vita}}
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\centerline{\MakeUppercase{\huge\bfseries{Matthew A. Carson}}}
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  {\centerline{\href{mailto:carsonmatt@ucla.edu}{Email: \texttt{carsonmatt@ucla.edu}}\hfill\href{http://matthewacarson.github.io}{Website: \texttt{matthewacarson.github.io}}}
  \centerline{\href{tel:9255650297}{Phone: \texttt{(925) 565-0297}}\hfill\href{https://bit.ly/CarsonCV}{Latest CV: \texttt{bit.ly/CarsonCV}}}}
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  {Email: \texttt{<LastnameFirstname> -at- ucla -dot- edu}\\
  \href{http://matthewacarson.github.io}{Website: \texttt{matthewacarson.github.io}}}


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\textbf{Substantive:} & organized labor \& social movements; urban sociology \& policy; gentrification; political economy; neoliberalization; incarceration \& police violence; race/racism, nationalism \& ``groupism.''\\
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\textbf{Methods:} & historical; comparative; quantitative; causal inference with observational data; mixed methods.
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\href{https://bit.ly/StatCrunchWinners}{\textbf{1\textsuperscript{st} Place, 2024 StatCrunch Student Contest}}\hfill{}5/2024
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    \item[] Placed \#1 in the StatCrunch statistics contest (\$\thinspace{}1,000).
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    \item[] \href{https://bit.ly/StatCrunchWinners}{\texttt{https://bit.ly/StatCrunchWinners}}
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\href{https://hass.ugresearch.ucla.edu/scholarships/ursp/students/}{\textbf{Undergraduate Research Scholars Program (URSP)}}\hfill{}9/2023--6/2024
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    \item[] Scholarship for senior thesis in sociology (\$\thinspace{}6,000).
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\href{https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/}{\textbf{Harvard Sociology: History of Crime and Punishment}}\hfill 7/2024--Present
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    \item[] Research Assistant for Professor Adaner Usmani
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\href{https://www.workingclasspolitics.org/}{\textbf{The Center for Working Class Politics}}\hfill 7/2024--Present
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    \item[] Research Assistant
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\href{https://soc.ucla.edu/undergraduate-study/department-honors-program/}{\textbf{UCLA Sociology Departmental Honors Program}}\hfill{}3/2023--6/2024
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    \item[] Senior thesis
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\href{https://polisci.ucla.edu/academics/undergraduate/honors-program/}{\textbf{UCLA Political Science Departmental Honors Program}}\hfill{}3/2023--6/2024
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    \item[] Senior thesis
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\textbf{Undergraduate Research Experience}, UCLA Political Science\hfill{}8/2022--12/2022
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    \item[] Assisted a graduate student with data collection for a political psychology
experiment in the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics subdiscipline.
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\href{https://bayhonors.org/}{\textbf{Bay Honors Research Symposium}} \hfill{}4/2022
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    \item[] Accepted to give a presentation about eminent domain and global warming; canceled because of COVID-19. (See `Publications' for the corresponding paper.)
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Political Science 170A				&Studies in Statistical Analysis of Political Data \\
Sociology 111							&Social Networks (computational sociology) \\
Sociology 191H						& Departmental Honors Seminar \\
Political Science 191H				& Research Design Seminar for Honors Thesis
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		Spoken/Written 					& Spanish (limited reading and speaking) \\
		Programming 						& \texttt{{\large R}}{\scriptsize **}, Python{\scriptsize *}, Stata{\scriptsize *}, \LaTeX{{\scriptsize *}} \\
		Version Control 					& Git{\scriptsize *} \\
		Citation Management 			& \href{https://www.zotero.org/}{Zotero}{\scriptsize ***}, BIB\TeX{}{\scriptsize *}
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{\scriptsize *}{\small Working knowledge;} {\scriptsize **}{\small Intermediate;} {\scriptsize ***}{\small Intermediate-advanced.}
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\href{https://www.unitehere11.org/}{\textbf{UNITE HERE Local 11}}\hfill{}4/2022--6/2022\\
Election Canvasser\hfill{}\textit{Los Angeles, CA}

\href{https://ua342.org/}{\textbf{UA Local 342}}\hfill{}8/2007--1/2017\\
Journeyman Plumber\hfill{}\textit{Concord, CA}

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{Chris Tausanovitch (political science thesis advisor)\hfill\href{mailto:ctausanovitch@ucla.edu}{ctausanovitch@ucla.edu}\\
Zsuzsa Berend (sociology thesis advisor)\hfill\href{mailto:berend@soc.ucla.edu}{berend@soc.ucla.edu}\\
Adaner Usmani (sociology)\hfill\href{mailto:ausmani@fas.harvard.edu}{ausmani@fas.harvard.edu}\\
Salma Mousa (political science)\hfill\href{mailto:smousa@ucla.edu}{smousa@ucla.edu}\\
Michael Tsiang (statistics)\hfill\href{mailto:mike@stat.ucla.edu}{mike@stat.ucla.edu}}
{Available upon request.}
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