I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. My research interests include political institutions and the political economy of media, with a focus on election laws and the role of local newspapers in politics.

You can download my CV here.

I am also a Resident Fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) and Faculty Affiliate at the Center for American Political Studies (CSAP), both at Yale. Previously, I was an affiliate of the Center for American Political Studies (CAPS) and Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences (IQSS) at Harvard. I have also worked for the MIT Election Data and Science Lab (MEDSL) and was part of the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project.

Published Research Articles

Redistricting and Gerrymandering

4. The Power of Characters: Evaluating Machine Learning Modified Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding Inference of Race in Redistricting. Curiel, John A. and Kevin DeLuca. [Accepted Upon Approval of Replication] State Politics & Policy Quarterly

1. American Election Results at the Precinct Level. 2022. Baltz, Samuel, Alexander Agadjanian, Declan Chin, John Curiel, Kevin DeLuca, James Dunham, Jennifer Miranda, Connor Phillips, Annabel Uhlman,Cameron Wimpy, Marcos Zárate, and Charles Stewart. Scientific Data 9, 651. [Publisher Link]

3. A Partisan Solution to Partisan Gerrymandering: The Define-Combine Procedure. 2023. Palmer, Maxwell, Benjamin Schneer, and Kevin DeLuca. Political Analysis, First View, 1-16. [Publisher Link]

2. Validating the Applicability of Bayesian Inference with Surname and Geocoding to Congressional Redistricting. 2023. DeLuca, Kevin, and John A. Curiel. Political Analysis, 30(3): 465-471. [Publisher Link]

Select Working Papers

Local Newspapers, Candidate Quality, and Elections