Dr. Scott Cook is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. Before joining Ohio State, he was an Associate Professor of political methodology at Texas A&M University and has taught short courses on research methods at ICSPR, Essex Summer School, GESIS, and WUSTL. Dr. Cook received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pittsburgh in 2014. His research addresses empirical challenges to inference in the study of political violence, including spatial (inter)dependence, measurement error, and sparse data. Dr. Cook's recent work focuses on extending spatial and spatiotemporal point process models to better capture the dynamics of social and political processes. He engages in cross-disciplinary collaborations, and his coauthored research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals in political science, public policy, and statistics.