Harry G. Muttram

Harry G. Muttram

I am a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at UC Riverside specializing in policing, police reform, and public policy. My research applies observational causal inference, experimental designs, computational methods, and qualitative interviews to understand how police behave and when reform works. I am also a researcher with the Everyday Respect project at USC.

University of California, Riverside Expected Ph.D. May 2027

Publications

The Subjectivity of Respect in Police Traffic Stops: Modeling Community Perspectives in Body-Worn Camera Footage. Accepted

Golazizian, Preni, et al. (incl. Harry G. Muttram). Association for Computational Linguistics.

American Immigration Attitudes and NIMBYism: Do Immigration Preferences Vary by Spatial Scale? Published

Lee, Jieun, and Harry G. Muttram (co-lead author). 2025. PS: Political Science & Politics 1–9.

When Are Identities Politically Consequential? Identifying Conditions of Descriptive, Substantive, and Allied Group Identity. Published

Bishin, Benjamin G., and Harry G. Muttram. 2024. The Forum 21: 339–357.

Under Review

Police as Policymakers: How Experiences With Policy Implementation Shape Policy Representation. Under Review

Sierra-Arévalo, Michael, José J. Alcocer, Lauren Brown, Raquel Delerme, Benjamin A.T. Graham, Harry G. Muttram, Jackson Trager, and Nicholas Weller. Political Research Quarterly.

Community-Informed AI Models for Police Accountability. Under Review

Graham, Benjamin A.T., et al. (incl. Harry G. Muttram). Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.

Working Papers

Political Control and Policing: When Do Police Comply with Police Reform?
Lead author. With José J. Alcocer, Lauren Brown, Benjamin A.T. Graham, Michael Sierra-Arévalo, and Nicholas Weller
Officer Staffing Configurations Limit the Benefits of Police Diversity: Evidence from the LAPD
Does Race Predict Civilian Escalation? Testing a Mechanism Underlying Bias in Officer-Involved Shootings
with Benjamin A.T. Graham, Michael Sierra-Arévalo, and Nicholas Weller
Do Efforts to Increase Officer Transparency Cause Crime? Evaluating the Efficacy of Depolicing in California
with Benjamin A.T. Graham, Jaylynn Lopez, Michael Sierra-Arévalo, and Nicholas Weller
Unpacking Negative Interactions with the Police: Estimating a Negativity Index and Its Distribution During Traffic Stops
with Benjamin A.T. Graham, Michael Sierra-Arévalo, and Nicholas Weller
Auditing Administrative Data: Do Police Systematically Misreport Traffic Stop Data?
with José J. Alcocer, Benjamin A.T. Graham, Michael Sierra-Arévalo, and Nicholas Weller

Interactive Tools

Shiny App · R
Should You Trust Your Policy Evaluation?

An interactive simulation tool for comparing causal inference estimators. Set the true policy effect, introduce complications like confounding or autocorrelation, and watch how Pre-Post, Two-Way Fixed Effects, and Regression Discontinuity in Time perform across hundreds of simulated datasets. Built for teaching and building intuition about when common evaluation strategies break down.

Launch Tool

Teaching

UC Riverside
Teaching Assistant
Criminal Justice, Judicial Politics, American Politics, American Institutions through Film, Congressional Elections, Graduate Quantitative Methods Sequence
ICPSR Summer Program — U. Michigan
Teaching Assistant, Summer 2025 & 2026
Evaluating Model Robustness (Regression III), Rational Choice Theories of Politics and Society
UC Graduate Division
Quantitative Methods Consultant
One-on-one consultations on research design, causal inference, and R. Workshops on regression, GLMs, multilevel models, causal inference, and LaTeX.
Prison Education Project
Educator, 2021–2022
Co-taught Introduction to Philosophy and Introduction to Sociology to incarcerated youth at Riverside and Indio Juvenile Halls.

Awards & Grants

Reviewer