Board of Directors
Roper Center Board Officers
Robert Shapiro – Chair
Robert Y. Shapiro (Ph.D., Chicago, 1982) is the Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. His current research examines partisan polarization and ideological politics in the United States, as well as other topics concerned with public opinion and policymaking.
Gary Langer – Vice Chair
Gary Langer is an internationally recognized public opinion researcher with expertise in survey methodology and management, questionnaire design and analysis of political, policy, economic and social attitudes. Langer Research Associates produces the ongoing ABC News/Washington Post polls for ABC News, the weekly Consumer Comfort Index for Bloomberg LP and survey projects for other clients on health care, international development and a range of public policy issues.
Kyley McGeeney – Secretary & Treasurer
Kyley McGeeney is a Research Scientist on the Demography and Survey Science team at Facebook. McGeeney’s methodological work includes studying online panels, comparing web to telephone surveys, examining the use of technology for surveys (mobile, texting, apps) as well as reviewing more traditional telephone survey methods. Prior to joining Facebook, McGeeney was Vice President of Survey Research at PSB, leading the firm's work on the 2020 Census Integrated Communications Campaign. She has also worked as a survey methodologist at both Pew Research Center and Gallup. McGeeney serves as the 2020 DC-AAPOR Program Chair and was previously a member of the AAPOR Executive Council as Education Chair. McGeeney holds an MPS in Applied Statistics from Cornell University and a BA in liberal arts from The New School.
Roper Center Board Members
William Block is a founder of Freedom on the Move, a data collection project incubated within Cornell's CISER that has grown into the world's largest collection of runaway slave ads from North American newspapers.
Ceilyn Boyd
Ceilyn Boyd is the Dataverse Development Project Manager at IQSS. This role collaborates with Dataverse team members and other stakeholders within the Dataverse Community to manage, coordinate, and support program activities including reporting, prioritization, and track deliverables. Previously, Boyd served as manager of the Harvard Library Research Data Services group.
Cho is one of the founding members of the Research team at SurveyMonkey, responsible for integrating survey best practices into all of SurveyMonkey’s products and services. Sarah manages the development of trainings, product features, and interactions with top customers, to showcase the value of the surveys in the workplace.
Peter Enns is Co-founder and Chief Data Scientist at Verasight. He is also the Robert S. Harrison Director of the Cornell Center for Social Sciences and Professor of Government and Professor of Public Policy at Cornell University. He was Executive Director of the Roper Center from 2015 to 2022.
Anna Greenberg is a Senior Partner at GQR, with over 20 years of experience polling in the political, non-profit and academic sectors. She joined GQR in 2001 after teaching public opinion and survey research methodology at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and is a research fellow at American University’s Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies.
Liz Hamel
Liz Hamel is Vice President and Director of Public Opinion and Survey Research at the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), where she directs KFF’s polling work including the monthly Health Tracking Poll and ongoing survey partnerships with news media organizations such as The Washington Post. Her research focuses on understanding the U.S. public’s views and knowledge on health care policy issues, and the role of opinion in health policy debates.
Juliana Menasce Horowitz is associate director of research at Pew Research Center, where she helps oversee research on social and demographic trends. She is involved in all stages of the research process, including designing and managing major survey projects, developing questionnaires, analyzing polling data, writing and editing reports and presenting survey results.
Vincent Hutchings is the Hanes Walton Jr. Collegiate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and a Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research. Professor Hutchings teaches courses in African American politics, public opinion & voting behavior, and Congress. His research interests focus on the circumstances under which citizens are attentive to political matters and engage in issue voting.
Timothy Johnson is Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he directed the Survey Research Laboratory for 23 years. He is currently a Research Fellow with NORC at the University of Chicago. Johnson’s current research focuses on measurement errors in cross-cultural research, nonresponse errors in health surveys, and public perceptions of the legitimacy of social research.
Kabir Khanna
Kabir Khanna is Deputy Director, Elections at CBS News, where he oversees election analytics and survey methods. He manages a team that analyzes live returns and calls races for the network. He produces data-driven news stories on politics and polling, appearing on CBS and BBC platforms. He served on the AAPOR special task force on 2020 polls, and has published academic research on U.S. public opinion and partisanship.
Lee M. Miringoff is the director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion at Marist College, and is a member of the Political Science faculty at the college. Lee received his Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lee is a frequent commentator on politics and elections and has appeared regularly on television and radio as an expert on public opinion, politics, and polling.
Limor Peer is Associate Director for Research at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) at Yale University. She also serves as a Research and Data Specialist at the Office of the Provost, spearheading campus-wide efforts relating to research data sharing and preservation. Her research interests include the media’s role in democracy and in the public opinion process.
Bryn Rosenfeld
Bryn Rosenfeld is Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell University. Her research interests include political behavior, development and democratization, protest, post-communist politics, and survey methodology. She is the author of The Autocratic Middle Class (Princeton University Press, 2020).
Tom W. Smith directs NORC’s Center for the Study of Politics and Society. From 1980 to 2019, he served as Director of the General Social Survey (GSS), one of NORC’s most visible projects and one of the nation’s most heavily utilized datasets. He is also co-founder of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP), former Secretary General of the ISSP, and currently serving on the ISSP Drafting and Methodology Committees.
David C. Wilson
David C. Wilson, Ph.D is Dean of the Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy and Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research investigates the psychology of political opinion about policies, contentious social issues, and political figures. He was formerly a senior statistical consultant and researcher at the Gallup Polling Organization, in Washington, DC. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Michigan State University.