Dane Meyer Email & Phone Number

Taiwan

• Edited science articles for researchers at Academia Sinica (中央研究院) for publication in Western professional journals.
• Designed and taught fifteen hours of adult academic writing and conversation courses per week.
• Mentored and tutored area high school students on college-level writing, presentation skills, and adapting to life studying abroad.
• Cultivated personal network of clients and students through referrals.
• Developed insider understanding of the East Asian secondary and tertiary education model.

• MA Thesis: “Imbalanced Population Sex Ratios as a Predictor of Civil Disorder: the Case of Taiwan”
• Presented at 2013 Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Conference.
• Constructed theory on how society-wide absence of marriage partners leads to civil unrest.
• Identified importance of marriage to Taiwanese male identity using survey data from Academia Sinica.
• Analyzed fifteen years of demographic data using spatial fixed effects panel data regression.
• Independently learned and applied propensity score matching techniques to improve causal validity of results.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Supervised and trained a project team of three junior analysts in governance metric analysis.
• Collected open and classified source material for network analysis of US Pacific and Central Command regions.
• Performed two-month assignment at US Special Operations Command headquarters, MacDill AFB Tampa, FL.
• Received special commendation for work on the GWOT End-State Metrics Project.
• Awarded the Joint Meritorious Unit Award for support to US Joint Forces Command.
• Cleared for Top Secret information and granted access to Sensitive Compartmented Information based on a Single Scope Background Investigation completed on December 19 2006.

I conducted research and manuscript editing for Prof. John Copper. This included finding source citations through news database, general research on Taiwan-China relations, and proofreading his books "Taiwan: Nation State or Province" and "Historical Dictionary of Taiwan."

Hong Kong, China

• Identified cultural business factors responsible for tension between Chinese-Western joint venture partners.
• Gathered data on M&A case studies from city libraries, online databases, and company resources.
• Presented findings both orally and in a finalized report to local FedEx management.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Social Sciences, 3.9

Relevant Courses: Linear Models; Causal Inference; Chinese Political Economy; Class and Inequality in Contemporary China; Economic Shocks.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), International Relations And Affairs, 3.6

Activities and Societies: President - Sigma Ioto Rho Honor Society, Senior Editor - Department Academic Journal, Research Assistant.

Mandarin Chinese

15 hours per week intensive language program in Mandarin Chinese.