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Peter
Tunkis, Ph.D.
Columbus, Ohio
Published social scientist, data scientist, and research statistician with a decade of experience in data-driven research, analytics, and project management. Combines deep knowledge of best practices in research with industry application. Excels at adapting to changing scenarios and quickly learning and understanding new skills and complex systems. Seeking to engage in a collaborative and dynamic innovation-, growth-, and goal-oriented environment.
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Provided staff support for the joint Politics, Society, and Law - International Affairs Scholars Programs student networking and experience visit to Washington, D.C., 21-24 March. Supervised and supported student engagement during visits to the Houses of Congress (meeting in the offices of Senators Brown and Portman, and Representatives Beatty and Stivers, from the Ohio Delegation), the Canadian Embassy, the Organisation of American States, the FBI Headquarters, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Ballard Spahr, LLP, offices.
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Assisted in the direction and coordination of the Ohio State Scholars Study Abroad visit to Prague and Brno, Czech Republic, 9-18 March. Provided translation and logistical support, led and supervised student activities to ensure engagement and enrichment.
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Graduate Administrative Assistant with the OSU Honors and Scholars Center. Working with the Politics, Society, and Law Scholars Program, and currently interim Program Manager for the International Affairs Scholars Program. Engaged in program administration and management, student life and event coordination.
Senior Customer Advocacy Insights Specialist
I conduct customer and market research using customer and colleague data and external/syndicated research, including demographic, satisfaction, complaints, consumer tracking studies, and other adhoc research and survey data. I regularly leverage advanced skills in statistics, data-driven research, and analytical tools (including R, SQL, and SPSS) to assist project managers and customer experience managers, and have helped the business by developing a standard, product value proposition scoring system. More broadly, I ensure the integrity of data and analysis methods (e.g., true key drivers analysis, A/B Testing methods, natural language processing, etc.), effective data-driven decision-making, and deriving goals and recommendations from actionable insights. I work with partners and stakeholders within Customer Advocacy (Research Project Managers, Customer Experience Managers) and across different business segments within the Enterprise (Retail Branch, Customer Solutions Center, Credit Card/Debit Card, Mortgage Origination and Servicing, etc.).
Visiting Fulbright-Hays Fellow
Conducted dissertation fieldwork in affiliation with the Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk and with support from a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship.
Interviewed 48 sitting and former Polish members of parliament (interviews administered in Polish), collected archived parliamentary data. Participated in life at the Institute, presented research, consulted and networked with academic community in Warsaw, Poznań, and Gdańsk.
Visiting Fulbright-Hays Fellow
Conducted dissertation fieldwork in affiliation with Sociologický Ústav AV ČR and with support from a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship.
Interviewed 27 sitting and former Czech members of parliament (interviews administered in Czech), collected archived parliamentary data. Participated in life at the Institute, presented research, consulted and networked with academic community in Prague.
Freelance Academic Writer & Translator
I engage in a variety of freelance projects in academic writing and translation services. To date, I have worked privately with clients (e.g., dissertation copy-editing), as well as under contract with groups such as Sage Publishing and Taylor & Francis.
Academic Writing:
Content-editing, copy-editing, proofreading, collaborative revision.
Textbook editing, question-bank generation, lesson/course-planning.
Grant writing, editing, revision.
Proposal review and evaluation.
Translation Services:
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Master of Arts (M.A.)
Political Science
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Political Science
Focus in Comparative Politics and Political Psychology.
Dissertation title: "Strength in Numbers: Social Identity, Political Ambition, and Group-based Legislative Party Switching"
Advisor/Promotor: Anthony Mughan
Committee: Goldie Shabad, Thomas E. Nelson, Sara Watson
Resident Director
Provided staff support for the joint Politics, Society, and Law - International Affairs Scholars Programs student networking and experience visit to Washington, D.C., 21-24 March. Supervised and supported student engagement during visits to the Houses of Congress (meeting in the offices of Senators Brown and Portman, and Representatives Beatty and Stivers, from the Ohio Delegation), the Canadian Embassy, the Organisation of American States, the FBI Headquarters, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Ballard Spahr, LLP, offices.
Resident Director
Assisted in the direction and coordination of the Ohio State Scholars Study Abroad visit to Prague and Brno, Czech Republic, 9-18 March. Provided translation and logistical support, led and supervised student activities to ensure engagement and enrichment.
Graduate Administrative Associate (GAA)
Graduate Administrative Assistant with the OSU Honors and Scholars Center. Working with the Politics, Society, and Law Scholars Program, and currently interim Program Manager for the International Affairs Scholars Program. Engaged in program administration and management, student life and event coordination.
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Political Science, European Union Studies
Honors Thesis Title: "Are Polish Political Elites more Europhobic than their Constituents? Polish Euroscepticism and the Elite-Mass Divide in the European Union."
Advisor: Conor O'Dwyer
A2larm
Rada pro rozhlasové a televizní vysílání upozorňuje na nevyvážené informování České televize o amerických prezidentských volbách. Díl viny ale nese i americké zpravodajství.
A2larm
Rada pro rozhlasové a televizní vysílání upozorňuje na nevyvážené informování České televize o amerických prezidentských volbách. Díl viny ale nese i americké zpravodajství.
Problems of Post-Communism
Introduction to Special Section in Problems of Postcommunism.
A2larm
Rada pro rozhlasové a televizní vysílání upozorňuje na nevyvážené informování České televize o amerických prezidentských volbách. Díl viny ale nese i americké zpravodajství.
Problems of Post-Communism
Introduction to Special Section in Problems of Postcommunism.
Problems of Post-Communism
Despite strong political party unity found in new democracies, many of the party systems in post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe are ‘quasi-institutionalized’ at best. If political parties are comparatively weak, what labels or identities bind legislators together, and to what extent do these strengthen or undermine party loyalty? Using semi-structured interviews with Polish politicians, the East European Parliamentarian and Candidate Data (EAST PaC), the novel Members of Parliament Affiliations Data (MPAD) for Poland, and roll-call votes (1997–2007), I show that loyalty among MPs sharing nonpartisan group identities or characteristics is important to the foundation of party labels, and has a significant impact on party loyalty.
A2larm
Rada pro rozhlasové a televizní vysílání upozorňuje na nevyvážené informování České televize o amerických prezidentských volbách. Díl viny ale nese i americké zpravodajství.
Problems of Post-Communism
Introduction to Special Section in Problems of Postcommunism.
Problems of Post-Communism
Despite strong political party unity found in new democracies, many of the party systems in post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe are ‘quasi-institutionalized’ at best. If political parties are comparatively weak, what labels or identities bind legislators together, and to what extent do these strengthen or undermine party loyalty? Using semi-structured interviews with Polish politicians, the East European Parliamentarian and Candidate Data (EAST PaC), the novel Members of Parliament Affiliations Data (MPAD) for Poland, and roll-call votes (1997–2007), I show that loyalty among MPs sharing nonpartisan group identities or characteristics is important to the foundation of party labels, and has a significant impact on party loyalty.
OhioLINK ETD, The Ohio State University
Party switching, or changing one’s political party affiliation, is a surprisingly widespread and persistent phenomenon among members of parliament (MPs) in old and new democracies alike. Switching gives voters the impression of a lack of legislator accountability and representation, and may indicate weak parties or government instability. Why do some MPs risk their careers, prestige, and chances of reelection for oftentimes uncertain payoffs? Extant research on party switching frames this behavior as an individual phenomenon, based on rational calculations to further goals of vote, office, or policy-seeking. Yet in the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe, I find that party switching is largely a group phenomenon, which has heretofore received little attention. Building upon established research on political parties, party systems, and legislator behavior, I develop a theory of group-based defection that addresses this gap in the literature. I argue that MPs pursue political ambition in groups in which they share political goals—the pursuit of collective ambition is thus an alternative means to achieving their objectives. These groups are formed around, or defined by, social identities that are common or shared among individual MPs. By switching political parties as part of a group, individual MPs are able to more effectively pursue their political ambition.
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