Directory : Institute for Social Science Research : UMass Amherst

Bea Cusin

Grants and Contracts Coordinator

Bea Cusin is part of the grant support team in ISSR. She comes most recently from Five Colleges, incorporated, where she supported Development and Sponsored Programs. Bea is the research administrator for Economics and Political Science.

Doug Rice

Associate Professor | Political Science & Research Methods Concentration Coordinator | College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Current ISSR Scholar Group Co-Facilitator

Shuyin Liu

Consultant

Shuyin Liu is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Sociology at UMass Amherst. Her research explores the intersections of gender, work and family, with a focus on unpaid labor, household structure, and intergenerational ties. Much of her work is guided by the overall goal of understanding how gender culture shapes and is shaped by family dynamics. Another line of her work focuses on adolescent health, social networks, and measurement issues in data collection. Shuyin offers consultation on data manipulation, data visualization, multivariate data analysis, and social network analysis in R.

Ariel Scalise

Consultant

Ariel Scalise, MPH, is a second-year PhD student in Health Policy and Management at the School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. As a research assistant for the Center for Program Evaluation, she contributes to multiple research evaluation projects. Ariel employs both qualitative and quantitative methods within her research to better capture the nuance of understanding how interventions are implemented and function.

Laura Attanasio

Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management