PETER MUHLBERGER
WORK: National Science Foundation; Arlington, VA
EMAIL: pmuhlber@nsf.gov EDUCATION
•University of Michigan, Political Science; Ph.D. 1995. Major Field: American Politics (Interest Groups, Public Opinion, Political Psychology); Minor Field: Political Theory (Social Theory, Philosophy of Science)
•University of Michigan, Institute of Public Policy Studies; Master of Public Policy, 1986. Coursework in Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Econometrics, and Social and Foreign Policy.
•University of Chicago, Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, 1983
EXPERIENCE
HIGHLIGHTS Senior Science Resources Analyst, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
(NCSES), National Science Foundation
• Responsible for chapters on science education policy and public understanding of science in the Congressionally­mandated publication Science and Engineering Indicators
• U.S. federal representative to the OECD Global Science Forum expert group tasked with developing a framework for the ethics of big data social research
•Developed an acquisition plan for the license of an international academic publications database and to contract bibliometric analytics services
Program Director, National Science Foundation (NSF): Cyber Social Science, Political Science
• Recipient of the Director's Award for Collaborative Integration as a member of the Cyberinfrastructure for the 21st Century Strategic Leadership Group
• Led NSF efforts to develop interdisciplinary collaborations between the social and computer science communities
• Provided extensive guidance to researchers seeking grants
• Inter­ and intra­agency communication and collaboration across multiple disciplinary boundaries and academic and administrative cultures
Director, Center for Communication Research, Texas Tech University
• PI or co­PI for multiple National Science Foundation grants
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Social and Decision Sciences Department, Carnegie Mellon University: Research and teaching on the psychology, sociology, and economics of the information society
Research Director, E­Governance and Engagement, Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society (InSITeS), Carnegie Mellon University
•Conceived and supervised research on the Virtual Agora Project, a $2.1 million NSF­
funded effort to understand online community
Assistant Professor in the Information and Decision Systems Program, Carnegie Mellon University
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL
Senior Science Resources Analyst, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
(NCSES), National Science Foundation (2013 to present)
•Responsible for public understanding of science and K­12 STEM education policy chapters in the Congressionally­mandated Science and Engineering Indicators biennial volume
•U.S. federal agency representative to the OECD Global Science Forum expert group on social research ethics and 'Big Data' •Technical expert for academic bibliometrics contracting
•Developed an Acquisition Plan and Statements of Work while serving as a Contracting Officer's Representative
•Answer questions and address concerns from the National Science Board, academics, journalists, Congressional staff, and the general public
•Utilized natural language processing and machine learning techniques to help construct an index and topical links for the Science and Engineering Indicators (SEI)
volume
•Worked with contracted SEI chapter specialists
•Advised on survey experiments regarding public knowledge of science
•Conducted original analyses of the variance of science and math achievement across countries in complex survey data (Programme for International Student Assessment, PISA)
Program Director, National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES), Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE), (2011 to
2013); including Director, Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Program; Director, Building Community and Capacity for Data Intensive Research Program; and Director, Political Science Program
•General Responsibilities: Director for multiple programs, strategic leadership, authoring solicitations and management plans, development of two interdisciplinary research communities, communication with research communities, interagency coordination, coordination with other NSF programs, research community point of contact, New Awards Presentations to NSF officials and program officers, supervision and leadership of peer review processes, funding
decisions in multiple programs, supervision of multiple NSF staff members
•Director for the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) Program and Member
of the SaTC Working Group.
­Representative of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic (SBE) sciences Directorate in NSF's response to the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) Presidential Directive
­SBE representative to the SaTC Working Group that involved interdisciplinary collaboration between social science; computer science; engineering; mathematics and physical sciences; and education.
­Interagency coordination including reports, presentations, and meeting participation with working groups representing defense, intelligence, law enforcement, economic, and other communities
­Strategic input in interagency workshops
­Intensive involvement in NSF­sponsored efforts to develop an interdisciplinary social and computer science research community on cybersecurity, including design and planning for five conferences, presentations, and community mailing list development. ­Recruited and hosted social science speakers for the Washington Area Trustworthy Computing Hour (WATCH) seminar series
­Media interview
­Represented the SBE / SaTC Program at academic conferences
­Developed program metrics and evaluations ­Conducted yearly reviews of all small (<$500K) and medium (<$1.2M) proposals that included the SBE perspective, comprised of 20 social science fields and subfields as well as computer science aspects
­Made all proposal funding decisions, about $6.5 million yearly
­Program officer for the SaTC Frontiers proposals (>$1.2M & <$10M each)
­Portfolio balancing and risk management through award decisions
­Reviewed proposals and made funding decisions for SaTC Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) competitions involving $2 million in funding
­Supervised three science assistants and two staff program specialists ­Fielded numerous inquiries from researchers
­Communication and consultation with the SBE Social and Economic Sciences (SES) Division Director
­Conceived and co­wrote a DCL to stimulate social research on privacy
•Member of the NSF's Cyberinfrastructure Framework for the 21st Century Science and Engineering Strategic Leadership Group (CIF21 SLG).
­Recipient of the Director's Award for Collaborative Integration for work on the IGERT DCL
­SBE representative to this interdirectorate working group
­Co­authored vision and roadmap documents to guide decisions by the NSF Director and Assistant Directors regarding cyberinfrastructure, computational tools, and big data programs and investments to promote computational and data intensive science and engineering
­Co­authored the IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship) CIF21 Dear Colleague Letter inviting proposals to improve graduate education and training with respect to computational and data­
enabled science and engineering
­Member of the CIF21 SLG Data Working Group; co­authored The CIF21 Data Vision and Strategy as well as the CIF21 Data Enabled Science Operations Plan
with respect to promoting data­intensive research
•Program Director for the NSF's Building Community and Capacity for Data­
Intensive Research in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences and in Education and Human Resources (BCC) Program and associated BCC working group.
­Social and Economic Sciences (SES) Division representative to the BCC working group, which includes representatives of all SBE divisions and the Education and Human Resources (EHR) Directorate
­Co­author of the BCC solicitation; helped design the program
­The purpose of the BCC program is to instantiate part of the CIF21 SLG roadmap by encouraging research communities to form around the development of computational and data intensive social science resources
­The program will distribute about $5 million per year for at least 3 years
­Co­author of the BCC Dear Colleague Letter (solicitation) and management plan
­Outreach to build a social science community around BCC
­Advised researchers regarding the program and their proposals
­Extensive coordination with other BCC program officers
­Made all proposal funding decisions for SES­relevant BCC proposals
­Portfolio balancing and risk management through award decisions
•Member, NSF Expeditions in Education (E2) Working Group.
­The E2 Working Group is an inter­directorate effort to develop a grant program to address two core problems in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education: the need to increase the number of U.S. STEM graduates and to create citizens sufficiently knowledgeable about STEM
­Sole SBE representative to a working group that includes representatives from
the physical sciences, engineering, cyberinfrastructure, and education
­Member of the E2 Solicitation Writing Group and co­author of the solicitation
­Acted to include cutting­edge social science in the E 2 program
•Program Director for the NSF Political Science Program.
­One of three program officers for the Political Science Program
­Reviewed proposals and made funding decisions on RAPID (Rapid Response Research) and EAGER (Early­concept Grants for Exploratory Research) proposals
­Fielded inquiries from the researcher community regarding the Political Science Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (DDRIG) program
­Extensive coordination with other political science program officers
­Contributed to bi­yearly reviews of DDRIG proposals. This involved hosting and co­supervising 15 political scientists for a two­day review panel.
­Collaboratively made all proposal funding decisions for DDRIG proposals
•Program Director for the NSF Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering (BIGDATA) solicitation
­Sole SBE Directorate representative to the BIGDATA working group, which includes representatives of all NSF Directorates
­Provided input into the BIGDATA solicitation, particularly encouraging social
science contributions
­The purpose of BIGDATA is to provide funding to implement cutting­edge tools for computation and data intensive science and engineering
­The program is providing up to $25 million per year in funding
•Professional Development
­Co­authored two peer­reviewed articles: "The Varieties of Individual Engagement (VIE) Scales: Confirmatory Factor Analyses Across Two Samples and Contexts" and "The Ethics of Wildlife Research: A Nine R Theory" ­Maintained active, unofficial involvement in the NSF­funded project "Developing a Social­Cognitive, Multilevel, Empirically­Based Model of Public Engagement for the Shaping of Science and Innovation Policy" with colleagues at the Univ. of Nebraska at Lincoln. ­Maintained active involvement in the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada's funded project Alberta Climate Dialogue with colleagues at the University of Alberta at Edmonton ­Completed analytic work on a paper titled "Gender and Group Deliberation: Disagreement, Perceptions of Disagreement, and Consequences" with colleagues at the Univ. of Arizona and Univ. at Albany, SUNY. ­Developed skills in natural language processing and machine learning
Director, Center for Communication Research, Texas Tech University (2008 to 2011)
•Assisting faculty and graduate students with their research
•Deploying a range of research tools: online surveys, computerized media experiments, eye tracking, continuous response measurement, online text extraction, focus group technologies
•Grant and commercial survey and focus group research
Research Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University (2007 to 2011)
•Primary Principal Investigator, "Collaborative Research: Deliberative E­
Rulemaking Decision Facilitation Project (DeER)," a $450,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) funded grant project (total funding, all universities). The project was in the NSF's Information and Intelligent Systems Division. The project developed and tested the benefits of public online deliberation techniques and an artificial deliberation facilitation agent for use by government agencies in obtaining public comments to proposed rulemakings. The facilitation agent combined several
natural language processing technologies to aid participants in learning about and discussing these policy issues.
•Co­Principal Investigator, "Developing a Social­Cognitive, Multilevel, Empirically­
Based Model of Public Engagement for the Shaping of Science and Innovation Policy," a $475,000 National Science Foundation funded grant project in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences directorate. This project is testing several educational approaches, including discussion and critical thinking tasks, to determine their impact on knowledge of and attitudes toward emerging nanotechnology, particularly socio­political and ethical ramifications of new technology. The project is particular focused on identifying the psychological mechanisms that mediate the impact of the educational approaches, to develop a more general theory of learning about science policy.
•Co­Principal Investigator, "Deliberative Democracy and Climate Change: Alberta and Beyond," a $1 million Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant project under the Community­University Research Alliances program. The project is seeking to develop and determine the socio­political impact of large­scale public deliberations in Alberta on the issue of climate change.
•Co­Principal Investigator, "Filling the Gap: Improving Education on the Ethics of Animal Use in Biological Field Research," a $300,000 National Science Foundation funded grant project in the Division of Biological Infrastructure. This project sought to create ethical guidelines for use in biological field research and construct and test a curriculum to aid graduate students in understanding these guidelines and the ethical issues raised in field research.
•Primary Data Analyst, "Expanding Texas HOT Jobs Resources," a grant research project funded by the Texas Higher Education Board under the Minority Health Research and Education Grant program. Analyzed "complex survey data" that required adjustment to population demographics.
•Taught Public Policy Theory and Process, a graduate­level course covering major theories of how public policy is made.
•Taught Mass Communications Research Methods, a course covering the range of methods employed in communications research
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Texas Tech University (2006 to 2007)
• Taught Introduction to Public Policy
• Taught Political Analysis, a methods course for undergraduates
• Taught research methods to graduate students in public administration
Senior Policy Fellow, Center for Public Service, Texas Tech University (2006 to 2007)
• Developed and submitted the Deliberative E­Rulemaking grant proposal to the National Science Foundation
• Author and co­author of three other grant proposals
• Pilot work on West Texas deliberations regarding water resources.
Board of Editors, Journal of Information Technology and Politics, (2006 to present)
•Advisor and editor to a repositioned journal. Formerly the Journal of E­
Government.
Visiting Scholar, University Center for Social and Urban Research, University of Pittsburgh (2005 to 2006)
•Co­wrote, with John Gastil, a successful grant proposal for a "Deliberative Toolkit"
research project testing methods of evaluating citizen dialogue at five U.S. and International sites. Received funding from the Deliberative Democracy Consortium. The project yielded a report with toolkit recommendations.
•Author of a National Science Foundation grant proposal draft for studying the impact of alternative forms of online deliberation on federal rulemaking at the Dept. of Transportation.
•Consultant to the Office of Behavioral Health, Department of Human Services, Allegheny County, PA for evaluation of communication on the Systems of Care Initiatives in preparation for the Early Childhood Initiative. These programs are supported by grants from the U.S. Health and Human Services agency.
Research Director, E­Governance and Engagement, Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society (InSITeS), Carnegie Mellon University (2000 to 2005)
•Primary author of a successful National Science Foundation grant proposal for a $2.1 million e­democracy and citizen deliberation project, "ITR: Developing and Testing A High Telepresence Virtual Agora For Broad Citizen Participation: A Multi­Trait, Multi­Method Investigation" or Virtual Agora Project (VAProject). The grant was funded through the Experimental and Integrative Activities division.
•Sole social scientist and chief research administrator on the VAProject
•Head of software analysis and design, year one, VAProject
•Co­hosted and co­organized the InSITeS E­Democracy Conference of 2002, which brought together academics and policy­makers.
•Designed a survey research project that won a Markle Foundation grant. Administered the project, which involved a mail survey of 1200 Pittsburgh residents to assess the state of civic engagement in the city.
•Co­authored a successful proposal for a Hewlett Foundation grant of $450,000 to sustain "Community Connections," an organization dedicated to creating and researching virtual communities as a means of building social capital
•Primary architect of Community Connection's virtual community web site intended to stimulate political engagement and for use as a social science research tool
•Helped design and evaluate a new civic engagement curriculum for high school students, the Youth Civic Participation Project
•Designed and co­administered a 1200­person survey effort for the Highland Park Community Plan, a community development and engagement project
•Consulted for the City of Pittsburgh regarding online deliberation
•Consulted for Project540.org, a major youth civic engagement project
•Led multiple software development teams, including for the NSF Virtual Agora Project and for Community Connections
•Created high­level designs for the Virtual Agora Project software
Visiting Professor, Heinz School of Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University (2000 to 2005)
•Developed new statistical methods for analyzing response latency measurements and a model for assessing unidimensional unfolding data
•Designed and tested new survey instruments for assessing causes of political apathy as well as deliberative political participation, trust, and norms
•Developed and taught a social science course on electronic democracy and a course in information systems management
Board of Editors, Journal of Public Deliberation, (2004 to present)
•Helped co­found a new peer­reviewed journal dedicated to the research and practice of democratic deliberation
Co­hosted the Prospects for Electronic Democracy conference (Sept. 2002), Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society, Carnegie Mellon University.
•Helped design the conference and invited scholars.
•Reviewed papers submitted.
•Attended by scholars from the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Social and Decision Sciences Department, Carnegie Mellon University (1995 to 2000)
•Designed and taught courses on the psychology, sociology, and economics of information technology, social theory, and political psychology
Information Systems Instructor, Social and Decision Sciences Department, Carnegie Mellon University (1995 to 2000)
•Taught core and advanced courses in software application design and development, systems analysis, and database management
•Taught Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications, HTML, Javascript, Active Server Pages, Microsoft Access, Structured Query Language, and Unified Modeling
Language
Research Consultant—Olszak Management Consulting Inc. (1999)
•Wrote all technical parts of grant proposal for a state­wide student drug use survey
•Designed questionnaire and complex, multistage sampling plan
•Bootstrapped sample statistics under varying sampling plans
•Planned statistical analyses and final reports
Political Science Undergraduate Program Director, Carnegie Mellon University (1996 to 1997)
Internships Director, Social and Decision Sciences Department, Carnegie Mellon University (1996 to 1997)
Computer Staff, Inter­university Consortium for Political and Social Research, ICPSR (1994)
•Assisted ICPSR participants with statistical software •Provided participants with statistical advice on their research projects
Market Research Consultant—Demand Research Incorporated (1994)
•Factor and path analysis of market research data
•Developed data manipulation software
Statistical Consultant—University of Michigan Medical School Summer Program (Feb. 1993 to May 1994)
•Statistical analysis to determine the efficacy of the Medical School's summer program for medical students from disadvantaged backgrounds
Journalist—The Recorder, San Francisco (1983 to 1984)
•Journalist for a legal and a commercial daily
•Covered political and professional news
TEACHING
Research Methods (2009­2011)
•Survey, experimental, qualitative, and quantitative methods for communications students
Public Policy Theory and Process (2010)
•A graduate­level course covering major theories of how public policy is made
•Class consisted of students in law, political science, and public administration
American Public Policy (2007)
•Course covering key public policy concerns from economics and health care to foreign policy.
Introduction to Political Analysis (2007)
•Statistics and research methods for political science undergraduates.
Research Methods for Public Administration (2006)
•Experimental and survey methods for public administration graduate students.
Information Systems Project (2003)
•Supervising a core projects course for Masters of Information Systems Management students, the Selma Burke Gallery On­Line Cultural Archives Project
The Internet and the Future of Democracy (2001)
•Co­designed, with constitutional law professor Peter Shane, this graduate level course that examines the psychological, sociological, political, and public policy implications of the Internet, particularly with a focus on effects that may influence the nature of democratic process
Virtual Politics (2000)
•Designed this course examining the economic, sociological, and political implications of the Internet
Self, Society, and Communication (1999­2000)
•Designed this upper­level undergraduate course on philosophy of language and the social and psychological implications of electronic media
Rationality and Values in Democracy (1996­2000)
•Designed this upper­level course on public opinion and political psychology
Social Theory and the Transformation of Politics (1997­2000)
•Designed this course covering the role of technology and the history of ideas in shaping political and social systems
Research Training Course (1996­2000)
•Design of a deliberative democracy grant proposal
•Research on vote choice and turnout
•Research in the determinants of public interest group participation
Application Design and Development (1998­1999)
•Software design, implementation, testing, and documentation
•Interface development, programming style, database design, and software quality principles Software Development Project (1999)
•Oversaw student software teams working on real information systems development projects for community organizations and firms
Introduction to Database Management Systems (1995­1997)
•Systems analysis, software design and development, database management, multiple software languages
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
Presentation on Citizen Engagement in Federal and State Rulemaking Processes, Virginia Tech, School of Public and International Affairs, Alexandria, VA, 2013.
Presentations regarding the Social, Behavioral, and Economic sciences perspective in the
Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace NSF grant program, delivered at: the 2012 Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (D.C.), the Cyber Operations R&D Priorities
Workshop (D.C.), the 2012 SaTC Aspiring Principal Investigators' Meeting (Raleigh, N.C.), the 2012 SaTC Cyber Cafe'
The NSF's SBE / SaTC Program, The Cyber Security and Information Assurance (CSIA)
Interagency Working Group Annual Planning Meeting, Washington, D.C., Oct. 25, 2012.
Cyber­Economic Incentives and Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace, with NSF CISE Program Officer Samuel Weber, The Cyber Security and Information Assurance (CSIA) Interagency Working Group, Washington, D.C., April 26, 2012.
Theories of Change and Evaluation Design Workshop, Partners for Democratic Change, Washington, D.C., Serving as Technical Expert, April 1­4, 2011.
Technical Expert Panel, American Institutes for Research, Washington, D.C., Feb. 15, 2011.
"A Deliberative Look at ADR and the Rule of Law," Alternative Dispute Resolution and The Rule of Law: Making the Connection (Conference), at the Missouri Center for the Study of Conflict, Law & the Media (in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution), Columbia, Missouri, Oct. 15, 2010.
"Researching Public Deliberation on Health Care, Environmental, and Bioethical Issues: A Primer," Public Deliberation, Ethics and Health Policy Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Sept. 10­11, 2010.
"E­Democracy," Texas Tech University, Dept. of Political Science, Guest Teacher, Course: Information Technology Management in the Public Sector. March 2008.
"Strategic and Communicative Rationality in the Public Sphere," Talk, Texas Tech University Dept. of Mass Communication, Lubbock, TX. January 2008.
"Media, Manipulation, and Agency," Georgetown University, Communication, Culture, and Technology Program, Guest Teacher, Course: Politics and the Media (in the Digital Age). December 2007.
"Human Agency in Strategic and Communicative Rationality," Talk, State University of New York at Albany Dept. of Communication, Albany, NY. October 2007.
"Parochial Citizens and Cognitive Development," Texas Tech University Dept. of Human Development and Family Studies, Lubbock, TX. March 2007.
"Authoritarianism, Socio­Political Perspective Taking, and Parochial Citizens in the American Public," Texas Tech University Dept. of Psychology, 2006, Lubbock, TX
Expert panelist on "The Internet and Social Change" forum for The Simple Society Alliance for Human Empowerment, 2006, Nashua, NH
"Deliberation Measurement Toolkit Project—An Update," Deliberative Democracy Consortium Biannual Meeting, 2005, Washington, D.C.
"Social Science and Online Deliberation," Developing and Using Online Tools for Deliberative Democracy Invitational Seminar, 2003, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
"Agency Theory: A Synthesis," Philosophy Colloquium, 2003, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
"The Virtual Agora Project," Human­Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), 2003, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
"Information Technology and Democracy: Toward a Communicative Theory of Agency," Euricom Experts Workshop, 2002, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
"The Digital Divide and Political Inequality," Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society Panel, 2002, Heinz School of Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
NOTE: Conference proceedings in this sections are from peer­reviewed information technology conferences. These are treated as publications in information and computer science fields.
Selected papers available at: http://www.geocities.com/pmuhl78
PytlikZillig, Lisa M., Myiah Hutchens, Peter Muhlberger, et al. 2013. "The Varieties of Individual Engagement (VIE) Scales: Confirmatory Factor Analyses Across Two Samples and Contexts." Journal of Public Deliberation 9(2): 1–36.
Curzer, Howard, Gad Perry, Mark Wallace, Dan Perry, and Peter Muhlberger. 2013 (Forthcoming). "Environmental Research Ethics: Extensions of the Three R's." Environmental Ethics 35.
Muhlberger, Peter, Jennifer Stromer­Galley, and Nick Webb. 2012. "An Experiment in E­
Rulemaking with Natural Language Processing and Democratic Deliberation." In Citizen 2.0: Public and Governmental Interaction Through Web 2.0 Technologies, eds. Kathryn Kloby and Maria J. D’Agostino. Hershey, PA: IGI Global Publishers, pp. 23­
40.
Stromer­Galley, Jennifer, Nick Webb, and Peter Muhlberger. 2012. "Deliberative E­
Rulemaking Project: Challenges to Enacting Real World Deliberation." Journal of Information Technology and Politics 9(1): pp. 82­96.
Kaye, Barbara K., Thomas J. Johnson, and Peter Muhlberger. 2012. "Blogs as a Source of Democratic Deliberation." In Blogging the Global Society: Cultural, Political and Geographical Aspects, ed. Tatyana Dumova and Richard Firodo, Hershey, PA: IGI Global, pp. 1­18.
Goold, Susan Dorr, Michael A. Neblo, Scott Y.H. Kim, Raymond De Vries, Gene Rowe, and Peter Muhlberger. 2012. "What Is Good Public Deliberation?" Hastings Center Report 42(2): 24–26.
Amla, Nina, Vijayalakshmi Atluri, Jeremy Epstein, Sol Greenspan, Peter Muhlberger, Victor P. Piotrowki, Andrew Pollington, Kevin Thompson, Zhi Tian, and Sam Weber. 2012. "Toward a Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace." The Next Wave 19(4). http://www.nsa.gov/research/tnw/tnw194/article10.shtml.
Muhlberger, Peter. 2011. "A Deliberative Look at Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Rule of Law." Journal of Dispute Resolution 2011(1): pp. 145–164.
Muhlberger, Peter, Jennifer Stromer­Galley, and Nick Webb. 2011. "Public Policy and Obstacles to the Virtual Agora: Insights from the Deliberative E­Rulemaking Project." Information Polity 16(3): pp. 197–214.
PytlikZillig, Lisa M., Alan Tomkins, Peter Muhlberger, et al. 2011. "Using Public Engagements to Provide Input and Insights into Policy, Legal, Ethical, and Other Impacts of Science." The International Journal of Science in Society 2(3): pp. 273­290.
Perry, Gad, Mark C. Wallace, Dan Perry, Howard Curzer, and Peter Muhlberger. 2011. "Toe­Clipping of Amphibians and Reptiles: Science, Ethics, and the Law." Journal of Herpetology 45(4): pp. 547–55.
Curzer, Howard J., Mark Wallace, Gad Perry, Peter Muhlberger, and Dan Perry. 2011. "Teaching Wildlife Research Ethics: A Progress Report." Teaching Ethics 12(1): pp. 95–
112.
Curzer, Howard, Gad Perry, Mark Wallace, Dan Perry, and Peter Muhlberger. 2010. "Principles of Animal, Environmental, and Ecological Research Ethics: Philosophical Foundations and Extensions of the Three R’s." Presented at the Compassionate Conservation Symposium, Oxford University.
Muhlberger, Peter, and Jennifer Stromer­Galley. 2009. "Automated and Hand­Coded Measurement of Deliberative Quality in Online Policy Discussions." In Proceedings of
the 10th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Social Networks: Making Connections between Citizens, Data and Government, Digital Government Society of North America, p. 35­41.
Stromer­Galley, Jennifer and Peter Muhlberger. 2009. "Agreement and Disagreement in
Group Deliberation: Effects on Deliberation Satisfaction, Future Engagement, and Decision Legitimacy." Political Communication 26(2): pp. 173­192.
Muhlberger, Peter, Nick Webb, and Jennifer Stromer­Galley. 2008. "The Deliberative E­
Rulemaking Project (DeER): Improving Federal Agency Rulemaking Via Natural Language Processing and Citizen Dialogue." ACM International Conference Proceeding
Series: Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Digital Government Research Conference, dg.o 2008 289: pp. 403­404.
Muhlberger, Peter. 2007. "Prosocial Reasoning in Deliberative Policy Choices." International Journal of Public Participation 1(1): 1­18 (available at http://www.iap2.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=191)
Muhlberger, Peter, and Lori M. Weber. 2006. "Lessons from the Virtual Agora Project: The Effects of Agency, Identity, Information, and Deliberation on Political Knowledge." Journal of Public Deliberation 2(1): pp. 1­39 (available at http://services.bepress.com/jpd/). Muhlberger, Peter. 2006. "Should E­government Design for Citizen Participation?: Stealth Democracy and Deliberation." ACM International Conference Proceeding Series: Proceedings of the 2006 National Conference on Digital government Research (available at: http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm) 151, pp. 53 ­ 61.
Muhlberger, Peter. 2005. "Human Agency and the Revitalization of the Public Sphere." Political Communication, 22(2), pp. 163­178.
Muhlberger, Peter. 2005. "The Virtual Agora Project: A Research Design for Studying Democratic Deliberation." Journal of Public Deliberation 1(1):1­13.
Muhlberger, Peter. 2004. "Access, Skill, and Motivation In Online Political Discussion: Testing Cyber­Realism." In Democracy Online: The Prospects for Political Renewal Through the Internet, edited by P. M. Shane. New York: Routledge.
Muhlberger, Peter 2003. "Political Values, Political Attitudes, and Attitude Polarization in Internet Political Discussion: Political Transformation or Politics As Usual?" Communications: The European Journal of Communications Research, 28(2).
Muhlberger, Peter 2000. "Moral Reasoning Effects on Political Participation." Political Psychology, 21(4), pp. 667­695.
Muhlberger, Peter 1998. "A Review of Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory." Political Psychology 19, pp. 874­878.
REPORTS
Muhlberger, Peter. 2006. "Building a Deliberation Measurement Toolbox Project." Report of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium, Washington, D.C.
Muhlberger, Peter. 2005. "Virtual Agora Project Report: Deliberated Views Regarding School Consolidation and Educational Improvements in Pittsburgh." Report of The Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society (InSITeS), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Muhlberger, Peter and Peter Shane 2002. "Prospects for Electronic Democracy: A Survey Analysis." Report of The Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society (InSITeS), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS Muhlberger, Peter, Jennifer Stromer­Galley, and Nick Webb. 2010. "The Deliberative E­
Rulemaking Project—Findings." Presentation at the 11th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, Digital Government Society of North America, Puebla, Mexico.
Stromer­Galley, Jennifer, Peter Muhlberger, Nick Webb. 2010. "Deliberative e­
Rulemaking Decision Facilitation: Challenges to Enacting Real­World Deliberation."
Presentation at Online Deliberation 2010, Leeds University, Leeds, United Kingdom.
Muhlberger, Peter and Weiwu Zhang. 2008. "Automated Extraction of Mental Models from Obama's and McCain's Campaign Speeches: A Natural Language Processing and Statistical Approach." Presentation at the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research, Chicago, Illinois.
Muhlberger, Peter, Nick Webb, and Jennifer Stromer­Galley. 2008. "The Deliberative E­
Rulemaking Project (DeER): Improving Federal Agency Rulemaking Via Natural Language Processing and Citizen Dialogue." Presentation at the 9th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, Digital Government Society of North America, Montreal, Canada.
Muhlberger, Peter. 2008. "The Virtual Agora Project: Making the Public an Intelligent Partner in Difficult School Board Policy Decisions." Presentation at the 8th Annual Texas ASPA / CPM Conference, San Antonio, TX.
Stromer­Galley, Jennifer and Peter Muhlberger. 2006. "Do Groups Deliberate and Does it Matter?" Paper presented at the 56th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, in Dresden, Germany.
Weber, Lori M. and Peter Muhlberger. 2006. "Can Citizens Learn from Deliberation? Examining an Experiment." Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
Muhlberger, Peter. 2005. "Attitude Change in Face­To­Face and Online Political Deliberation: Conformity, Information, or Perspective Taking?" Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
Muhlberger, Peter. 2005. "Stealth Democracy, Apathy Rationales, and Deliberation." Paper presented at the International Communication Association Annual Meeting, at New York, NY.
Muhlberger, Peter. 2005. "Democratic Deliberation and Political Identity: Enhancing Citizenship." Paper presented at the International Society of Political Psychology 28th Annual Scientific Meeting, Toronto, Ontario.
Muhlberger, Peter. 2004. Polarization of Political Attitudes and Values on the Internet. Paper read at International Communication Association Annual Meeting, at New Orleans, Louisiana.
Muhlberger, Peter. 2003. "Beyond Political Interest: Political Internalization in Political Participation." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, at Philadelphia, PA.
Muhlberger, Peter. 2003. "Political Trust Vs. Generalized Trust in Political Participation." Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, at Philadelphia, PA.
Muhlberger, Peter. 2003. "Political Apathy Rationales: Stealth Democracy or Failure of Societal Perspective?" Paper presented at the International Society of Political Psychology Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
Muhlberger, Peter. 2003. "Unraveling Ethical Reasoning Chains in Political Participation Decisions." Paper presented at the International Society of Political Psychology Annual Meeting, at Boston, MA.
Muhlberger, Peter. 2001. "Social Capital and Deliberative Theory: A Synthesis and Empirical Test." Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Muhlberger, Peter. 2001. "Analyzing Reasoning Processes in Political Participation Decisions: A New Methodology." Paper presented at the American Political Science
Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Muhlberger, Peter 2001. "Political Speech and Apathy in an American City: A Pilot Study." Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
Muhlberger, Peter 2000. "Measuring Deliberative Participation and Potential." Paper presented at the International Society of Political Psychology Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.
Muhlberger, Peter 2000. "An Ethical Responsibility Model of Electoral Participation and Candidate Choice." Paper presented at the 1999 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
Muhlberger, Peter 1999. "A General Unfolding, Non­folding Scaling Model and Algorithm." Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
Muhlberger, Peter 1998. "The Role of Political Agency in Political Participation Decisions." Paper presented at the International Society of Political Psychology Annual Meeting, Quebec, Canada.
Muhlberger, Peter 1998. "An Experiment in Deliberative Democracy: Politics Shaping Citizens." Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago.
Winkielman, Piotr and Peter Muhlberger 1997. "Paradoxes of Public Spending: A Socio­
Cognitive Analysis." Paper presented at the International Society of Political Psychology Annual Meeting, Krakow, Poland.
Muhlberger, Peter 1996. "The Role of Attention in Public Interest Participation Decisions." Paper presented at the International Society of Political Psychology Annual Meeting, Vancouver, B.C.
Muhlberger, Peter. 1995. "Participation in Public Interest Groups and Campaign Organizations: From Rational Choice to an Explanation Based on Altruism and Ethical Reasoning (Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan, 1995)." Dissertation Abstracts International 56­08A: 266 (University Microfilms No. 9542919).
Muhlberger, Peter 1994. "Rational Choice Theories of Public Interest and Campaign Participation: A Critique" Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago.
Muhlberger, Peter 1993. "Moral Reasoning Complexity and The Motivation of Political Participation." Paper presented at the International Society of Political Psychology Annual Meeting, Boston. Muhlberger, Peter 1993. "Altruism, Self­Concept, and Political Participation: Toward A
Reasoning Process Framework." Paper presented at the International Society of Political Psychology Annual Meeting, Boston.
Muhlberger, Peter 1992. "Altruism, Rational Choice, and Grassroots Participation." Paper presented at the International Society of Political Psychology Annual Meeting,
San Francisco.
Muhlberger, Peter 1992. "Politico­ethical Reasoning and Public Interest Group Activism." Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Muhlberger, Peter. "Stealth Democracy and Deliberation." Revise and resubmit at the journal Political Psychology.
Kate Kenski, Peter Muhlberger, and Jennifer Stromer­Galley. "The Impact of Gender in Public Deliberations." Work product of the NSF­funded Virtual Agora Project.
Muhlberger, Peter. "Attitude Change in Face­To­Face and Online Political Deliberation: Conformity, Information, or Perspective Taking?" Work product of the NSF­funded Virtual Agora Project.
Muhlberger, Peter. "Strategic and Communicative Rationality in a Deliberative Field Experiment." Work product of the NSF­funded Virtual Agora Project.
METHODOLOGICAL SKILLS
STATISTICAL METHODS
Bayesian Data Analysis
Unfolding Data Models
Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Maximum Likelihood Modeling
General Linear Model
Time Series
ANOVA
Probit / Logit Models Selection Models
Bayesian Model Selection
RESEARCH METHODS
Survey Research
Content Analysis
Interviewing
Experimental Design
Natural Language Processing
STATISTICAL SOFTWARE
SPSS
SYSTAT
AMOS
JAGS
SAS
Structural Equations
Exploratory Factor Analysis
Scaling
Regression Diagnostics
Cluster Analysis
Discriminant Analysis
Bootstrapping
Mixed Effects Models
SHAZAM
STATA
EQS S+
BUGS R
SOFTWARE DESIGN
Wrote CATI / Web­based Social Science Survey System, Unified Modeling Language (UML)
COMPUTER LANGUAGES AND SOFTWARE
Java, Java Server Pages, Pascal, Javascript, Perl, Active Server Pages, Visual Basic, HTML, Structured Query Language (SQL), Postgresql and Microsoft Access Databases, STATA and R statistical programming languages
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
TEACHING
Quantitative Methods
Social Movements
Social Implications of IT
Research Methodology Political Behavior
Public Policy
Public Opinion
American Politics
Media and Politics
Interest Groups
Political Psychology
Political Philosophy
Software Analysis and Design
Social Theory
Database Management
Data Mining
RESEARCH
Computational social science, automated and semi­automated textual analysis
Psychological, social, and political consequences of information technology
Psychological and political consequences of deliberative democracy
Political effects of identity and socio­political sophistication
Political ideology and belief systems
FELLOWSHIPS / GRANTS
2010­2013. "Developing a Social­Cognitive, Multilevel, Empirically­Based Model of Public Engagement for the Shaping of Science and Innovation Policy." National Science Foundation, Social and Economic Sciences. $474,616. Co­Principal Investigator with Lisa PytlikZillig and Alan Tomkins.
2010­2015. "Deliberative Democracy and Climate Change: Alberta and Beyond." Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. $1 million, with matching funds of $4 million from community partners. Co­PI with David Kahane, Mark Warren, Janette Hartz Karp, Matt Leighninger, et al.
2009­2010. "Filling the Gap: Improving Education on the Ethics of Animal use in Biological Field Research." National Science Foundation, Ethics Education in Science and Engineering. $299,512. grant for. Co­PI with Mark Wallace, Dan Perry, and Howard Curzer.
2007­2009. "Collaborative Research: Deliberative E­Rulemaking Decision Facilitation
Project (DeER)." National Science Foundation, Human Centered Computing, " a $450,000 grant for. Primary Principal Investigator, with Co­PIs of Jennifer Stromer­
Galley and Nick Webb.
2002­2005. "ITR: Developing and Testing A High Telepresence Virtual Agora For Broad Citizen Participation: A Multi­Trait, Multi­Method Investigation." National Science Foundation, Information Technology Research for National Priorities. $2.1 million. Primary author of the social science research components of the proposal, Co­PI with Peter Shane.
2000­2002. "Community Connections." William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. $450,000. Co­PI with Peter Shane.
2001. "Prospects for Electronic Democracy." Markle Foundation Research Grant. $30,000. Co­PI with Peter Shane.
1995­1997. Faculty Development Grant. Carnegie Mellon University. $10,000. Principal Investigator.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND MEMBERSHIPS
Panel Organizer and Chair, "Information Technology and Public Deliberation: Research on Improving Public Input into Government", dg.o (conference on digital government), 2010
Advisory Panel of the International Institute for Democratic Dialogue and Deliberation, 2009
Co­Chair, Workshops and Tutorials, 9th Annual International Digital Government Research Conference, dg.o 2008
Member of the Ad Hoc Committee, Information Technology and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, 2007
Panel Discussant, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Information Technology and Politics Section, 2005
Panel Chair and Panel Discussant, Carnegie Mellon Seminar "Developing and Using On­line Tools for Deliberative Democracy," 2003
Panel Chair, Euricom Colloquium, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2002
Panel Chair and Panel Discussant, E­Democracy Conference, Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society, 2002
Panel Chair and Panel Discussant, Midwest Political Science Association
Annual Meeting, 2001
Panel Chair and Panel Discussant, International Society of Political Psychology Annual Meeting, 2000 Reviewer: National Science Foundation, IIS Program; National Science Foundation, CISE Program, E­government; American Journal of Political Science; Public Opinion Quarterly; Journal of Politics; Political Communication; Political Psychology; American Politics Research; The Information Society; Journal of Public Deliberation; Journal of Information Technology and Politics; International Journal of Public Participation, Journal of Communication, Electronic Journal of Communication, Political Studies, Politics and Policy, multiple books and reports
Member, at various times, American Political Science Association (APSA), International Communication Association, Midwest Political Science Association, International Society for Political Psychology, Digital Government Society