Rate My Professor Charles Crabtree

Charles Crabtree served as Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth College from 2020 to 2025. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan, an M.A. from Pennsylvania State University, an M.A. from Northwestern University, and a B.A. from the University of Colorado Boulder. His research centers on intergroup relations, conflict, and discrimination, with a particular emphasis on measuring these phenomena in new contexts and for understudied groups such as those defined by class. Crabtree employs experimental methods, computational text analysis, machine learning, and large language models to study bias and exclusion across societies, including the United States, the Asia-Pacific region, and the former Soviet Union.

During his time at Dartmouth, Crabtree taught courses in statistical reasoning, experimental methods, and the politics of discrimination. His work has appeared in leading journals including the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Nature, Nature Human Behavior, Political Analysis, Public Administration Review, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He has contributed to public discourse through media coverage in outlets such as NPR, CBS News, The Atlantic, and The Economist. Crabtree has held visiting positions including at Stanford University's Asia-Pacific Research Center and maintains affiliations with institutions in the Asia-Pacific following his tenure at Dartmouth.