About Me

Professional headshot of Justin Dollman

Since this site’s raison d’être is professional, I should say a word or two about me qua wage laborer

According to my résumé, I’m a political science PhD candidate at SUNY Stony Brook. In my actual day-to-day, however, I spend most of my time “upskilling” in technical AI safety and AI governance/policy. To that end, I …

facilitate a couple groups of CAIS’s AI Safety, Ethics, and Society course
am a frequent presenter at and triumvir of BlueDot Impact’s unofficial Evals Paper Reading club (see here for BlueDot Impact’s calendar)
(somewhat) recently completed the BlueDot AI Governance course
am currently taking Vista’s National Security Law and AI Course

I’m also an active member of the Effective Altruism community – I attended my first Effective Altruism Global(x) event in Mexico City in March of 2025.

Looking back to the recent past, during my time at Stony Brook I had the pleasure of taking courses with such luminaries as Stanley Feldman, Andy Delton, and Yanna Krupnikov. The dissertation I’m currently wrapping up under the guidance of Michael Peress consists of three mostly independent chapters, covering immigration opinion’s effect on immigration policymaking at the level of US states, cross-national comparisons of the urban-rural divide across the globe, and an intranational study of urban-rural movements and ideological shifts in the Netherlands.

Before landing on the Ye Longe Isle of Bagels & Hockey Fanatics, I taught English for a few years in Ecuador and Peru. And before that, I triple majored in philosophy, psychology, and German at the University of Arkansas (with a year spent at Karl-Franzens Universität in Graz, Austria).