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Dilshod Achilov

faculty

Dilshod Achilov, PhD

Associate Professor

Political Science

Contact

508-910-6489

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Spruce Hall 0179

Education

2010University of ArizonaPhD

Teaching

  • Comparative and International Politics
  • Research Methods
  • Democratization
  • Civil Society
  • Political Islam

Teaching

Programs

Teaching

Online and Continuing Education Courses

Students will learn how to study politics "scientifically" using theories, hypotheses, and concepts to explore the relationships among variables. Students will also learn how to define and critique concepts commonly used in professional journals. The course includes an overview of descriptive statistics using the SPSS software, exposure to some inferential statistics, and their application to data analysis in Political Science. Students learn how to present quantitative data in a manner consistent with the expectations of the discipline.
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Dr. Dilshod Achilov is a scholar of comparative politics with expertise in democratization, contentious politics, and computational social science methods. His research focuses on political change and regime transitions in the Middle East and Central Asia. His work also explores the integration of conventional statistical techniques with fuzzy-set comparative analysis, alongside the computational analysis of unstructured data systems.

Dr. Achilov is a recipient of the prestigious U.S. Fulbright Scholar Award and served as an inaugural Alwaleed Fellow at the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations. He was also a visiting scholar at the Davis Center at Harvard University. He has received multiple competitive research grants and conducted extensive fieldwork across the Middle East and Central Asia.

His scholarly work has been published in reputable academic journals such as International Political Science Review, Social Science Quarterly, Democratization, Mediterranean Politics, Religions, Problems of Post-Communism, Journal of Civil Society, Religion, State and Society, Asia Policy, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, and Digest of Middle East Studies.