Marty Davidson

Marty Davidson is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, specializing in American Politics and Political Methodology. His research examines how geography structures race, class, and gender within the criminal legal system.

Research Interests:

• Substantive work on policing, identity, and civil society
• Technical innovations in geolocated event data analysis
• Development of causal inference frameworks for spatio-temporal data
• Exploration of spillover effects in policing demand and enforcement

His methodological focus includes measurement strategies for spatial data and integration of geographic variables into causal modeling.