CV

Academic CV of Dr. James P. Cross, Associate Professor of Political Science at University College Dublin.

Contact Information

Name James P. Cross
Professional Title Associate Professor of Political Science
Email james.cross@ucd.ie
Location Dublin, Dublin 4

Professional Summary

Associate Professor of Political Science at University College Dublin and Director of the Connected_Politics Lab. Research on EU politics, computational political science, and text-as-data methods.

Experience

  • 2014 - present

    Dublin, Ireland

    Associate Professor of Political Science; Director, Connected_Politics Lab
    University College Dublin
    Research and teaching on EU politics, computational political science, and text-as-data methods. Founded the MSc in Politics and Data Science (2019).
  • 2012 - 2013

    Florence, Italy

    Max Weber Fellow & Jean Monnet Fellow
    European University Institute
  • 2011 - 2012

    Zurich, Switzerland

    Post-doctoral Researcher
    ETH Zurich
  • 2016 - present

    Dublin, Ireland

    Co-founder & Secretary
    COMPTEXT Association
    International association for computational text analysis in the social sciences.
  • 2018 - present

    Dublin, Ireland

    Co-founder, Computational Methods Specialist Group
    Political Studies Association of Ireland

Education

  • 2007 - 2011

    Dublin, Ireland

    PhD
    Trinity College Dublin
    Political Science

Awards

  • 2024
    UCD Teaching Excellence Award
    University College Dublin
  • 2023
    Google.org Impact Challenge Grant (EUR 1.5m)
    Google.org

    Co-lead for ParliView, an AI-driven parliamentary transparency tool.

  • 2020
    Jean Monnet Programme Grant
    European Commission

    Innovative curricula integrating political science and computational methods.

  • 2019
    PSAI Teaching Award
    Political Studies Association of Ireland
  • 2017
    Sage Prize for Best Article in European Union Politics
    Sage Publications

    For Cross & Hermansson (2017): Legislative Amendments and Informal Politics in the European Union.

Skills

Research Methods (Expert): Text-as-Data, NLP, LLMs, Computational Social Science, Network Analysis, Topic Modeling
Substantive Expertise (Expert): EU Politics, Legislative Decision-Making, Central Bank Communication, Parliamentary Transparency