CV
Contact Information
| Name | Samuel Morgan Martin |
| Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| sammorgan.martin@mail.utoronto.ca | |
| Website | https://www.sammorganmartin.com |
| U of T Profile | https://www.politics.utoronto.ca/people/directories/graduate-students/samuel-martin |
Education
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Fields: Comparative Politics, International Relations
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Honours with Distinction
Fellowships and Awards
Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
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$80,000 CAD
APSA Political Networks Section Travel Grant
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$500 USD
Recent Conference and Workshop Presentations
Power Play: Elite Networks and Authoritarian Leadership Challenges
APSA Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
Power Play: How Networks Structure Credible Commitment in Authoritarian Leadership Challenges
Annual Political Networks Conference, Manchester, UK
Decoding Networks: Open-Weights LLMs for Network Data Extraction
Blalock Lecture Series, ICPSR Summer Program, Ann Arbor, MI
Power Play: How Networks Structure Credible Commitment in Authoritarian Leadership Challenges
MPSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
The Betweenniks: Coups, Coup Proofing, and Autocratic Elite Networks
Annual Political Networks Conference, Boston, MA
The Betweenniks: Coups, Coup Proofing, and Autocratic Elite Networks
Prairie Political Science Association Conference, Banff, AB
Poster Presentations
Decoding Networks: Open-Weights LLMs for Network Data Extraction
PolMeth Summer Meeting, East Lansing, MI
Research Assistantships
Elite Networks and Autocratic Stability: Application to Putin’s Russia
Research assistant to Professor Olga Chyzh.
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Developed automated network data collection procedures using large language models.
Who Voted for the Guns of August?
Research assistant to Professor Brendan McElroy.
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Literature review, data collection, and archival work in Russian.
The Cultural Politics of Infrastructure
Research assistant to Professor Theresa Enright on her SSHRC-funded project.
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Conducted literature review, collected data, and conducted interviews.
Comparative Politics in Canada
Research assistant to Professors Michelle Bonner and Rita Tremblay.
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Collected data on comparative politics researchers in Canada.
Teaching (Methods)
Network Analysis II, ICPSR Summer Program
Teaching assistant for Professors Olga Chyzh and Shahryar Minhas.
POL304: Quantitative Study of War
Teaching assistant for Professor Mark Nieman.
POL304: Using Data to Understand Politics and Society
Teaching assistant for Professor Olga Chyzh.
Teaching (Substantive)
POL380: Terrorism and Insurgency
Teaching assistant for Professor Olga Chyzh.
POL212: Understanding War
Teaching assistant for Professor Dani K. Nedal.
POL354: Russian Politics
Teaching assistant for Professor Brendan McElroy.
POLA01: Revolutions
Teaching assistant for Professor Lucan Way.
POL107: What Went Wrong? A Post Mortem of Political Disasters, Catastrophic Policy Failures, and Epic Marches of Folly
Teaching assistant for Professor Lilach Gilady.
POL354: Russian Politics
Teaching assistant for Professor Ed Schatz.
POL305: The International Politics of Authoritarianisms
Teaching assistant for Semuhi Sinanoglu.
POL101: The Real World of Politics
Teaching assistant for Professor Courtney Jung.
Service and Research Program Organization
Comparative Autocracy Student Research Cluster
Co-Chair, Department of Political Science.
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Book talk: Revolution and Dictatorship by Dr. Lucan Way (November 2022).
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Book talk: Outsourcing Repression by Dr. Lynette Ong (December 2022).
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Thesis workshop: “State-Business Relations under Assad 1991-2011” by Gamal Mansour (January 2023).
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Paper workshop: “Moscow Must Pay: the economy of central control in Putin’s Russia” by Samuel Morgan Martin (November 2023).
Professional Development
Bellingcat RUnet Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Workshop
Skills
Network analysis, Natural Language Processing, Spatial Statistics, Panel Data
R, Python, vLLM
Languages
Native speaker
Intermediate