Stuart Shulman

Dr. Stuart W. Shulman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science in the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was the founder (2005) and Director of Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP) at the University of Pittsburgh from 2005-2008. He is the sole inventor of QDAP’s 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 and workshop projects focusing on electronic rulemaking, human language technologies, manual annotation, digital citizenship, YouTube and US elections, as well as service-learning efforts in the United States.