Chase Harrison

Preceptor in Survey Research, Dept. of Government, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Chase H. Harrison is Preceptor in Survey Research in the Department of Government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.  He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in survey research, advises faculty and students on survey methods, and is developing university-wide survey infrastructure and resources through the Program on Survey Research and the Institute for Quantitative Social Science.  He is actively collaborating on an initiative to codify and develop quality measures and standards in survey research; he is collaborating on an open-source survey software project for Internet survey research and experiments.  He began his research career in 1990 at Market Strategies, Inc., of Southfield Michigan, where he collaborated on the development of the survey methodology for the American Customer Satisfaction Index, and other large social science studies.  Chase joined the University of Connecticut in 1995, where he worked first at the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research and then at the Center for Survey Research and Analysis.  He received his M.A. in Political Science, Concentration in Survey Research in 1996, and his Ph.D. in Political Science in 2006.

Chase Harrison and his wife at the 2008 Awards Night