Dr. Stuart W. Shulman received a Bachelor’s degree from Boston University (Political Science and English) in 1989 and a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon (Political Science) in 1999. As of September 1, 2008, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science in the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is also a Senior Research Associate at the University of Pittsburgh’s University Center for Social and Urban Research (UCSUR) and in the Université de Genève-, European University Institute-, and Oxford Internet Institute-based E-Democracy Centre.
Dr. Shulman was the founder (2005) and Director of UCSUR’s Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP) from 2005-2008. He is also the sole inventor of the Coding Analysis Toolkit. QDAP is a fee-for-service coding lab that has worked on projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other U.S. funding agencies. He has been the Principal Investigator and Project Director on related National Science Foundation-funded research projects focusing on electronic rulemaking, human language technologies, manual annotation, digital citizenship, and service-learning efforts in the United States.
In 2007, Dr. Shulman was named Director of the Sara Fine Institute and he became a Core Investigator in the Advanced Center for Interventions and Services Research Network Development Core.
As Director of the NSF-funded eRulemakning Research Group, Dr. Shulman was the organizer and chair for federal agency-level electronic rulemaking workshops funded by the NSF and held at the Council for Excellence in Government (2001), the National Defense University (2002), the National Science Foundation (2003 & 2006), and The George Washington University (2004). In November of 2006, he chaired a NSF-funded workshop at Pitt titled
