Omar Wasow

Omar Wasow is an Assistant Professor in Princeton Universitys Department of Politics His research focuses on race and politics His coauthored work on the challenge of estimating effects of race was published in the Annual Review of Political Science His research on the political consequences of nonviolent and violent protests has been featured in The Washington Post Vox and The Week Before joining the academy Omar served as a regular onair technology analyst and was the cofounder of BlackPlanet a social network he helped grow to over three million active users In 2003 he helped found a high performing K8 charter school in Brooklyn He is a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the Aspen Institutes Henry Crown Fellowship He received a PhD in African American Studies an MA in Government and an MA in Statistics from Harvard University