Maria Gargiulo

About me

I’m a graduate student in Sociology and Demography at the University of Oxford and a member of Nuffield College. My research uses quantitative methods to bring clarity to human rights violations, especially in settings where data are incomplete. My thesis work focuses on the under-documentation of feminicide in Mexico and the impacts of feminicide on population health.

I moonlight as a statistician at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, where I contribute statistical analyses for projects in Colombia and Syria. My methodological work focuses on missing data, record linkage, and multiple systems estimation (capture-recapture). I am passionate about training other data analysts working on human rights questions, and I love the challenge of communicating complex statistical work to technical and non-technical audiences. Additionally, I serve on the American Statistical Association’s Committee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights.

I hold a bachelor of science degree in Statistics & Data Science and Spanish from Yale University. Previously, I researched sexual violence in armed conflict under the supervision of Elisabeth Wood in the Yale Department of Political Science, conducted field research on intimate partner violence in León, Nicaragua, and worked as a Civic Digital Fellow at the U.S. Census Bureau.

I ❤️ censuses, public libraries, and the postal service.

Publications

Gargiulo, Maria. 2022. “Statistical biases, measurement challenges, and recommendations for studying patterns of femicide in conflict.” Peace Review (ahead of print). Available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2022.2049002 [Accepted version]

Dumaine, Logan, Ragnhild Nordås, Maria Gargiulo, and Elisabeth Wood. 2021. “Repertoires of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict: Introducing the RSVAC Data Package.” Journal of Peace Research (ahead of print). Available online: https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433211044674

Gargiulo, Maria and Megan Price. 2021. “Lies, Damned Lies, and ‘Official’ Statistics.” Health and Human Rights Journal. Available online: https://www.hhrjournal.org/2021/06/lies-damned-lies-and-official-statistics/

Johndrow, James, Patrick Ball, Maria Gargiulo and Kristian Lum. 2020. “Estimating the Number of SARS-CoV-2 Infections and the Impact of Mitigation Policies in the United States.” Harvard Data Science Review. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1162/99608f92.7679a1ed

Maria Gargiulo

About me

I’m a graduate student in Sociology and Demography at the University of Oxford and a member of Nuffield College. My research uses quantitative methods to bring clarity to human rights violations, especially in settings where data are incomplete. My thesis work focuses on the under-documentation of feminicide in Mexico and the impacts of feminicide on population health.

I moonlight as a statistician at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, where I contribute statistical analyses for projects in Colombia and Syria. My methodological work focuses on missing data, record linkage, and multiple systems estimation (capture-recapture). I am passionate about training other data analysts working on human rights questions, and I love the challenge of communicating complex statistical work to technical and non-technical audiences. Additionally, I serve on the American Statistical Association’s Committee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights.

I hold a bachelor of science degree in Statistics & Data Science and Spanish from Yale University. Previously, I researched sexual violence in armed conflict under the supervision of Elisabeth Wood in the Yale Department of Political Science, conducted field research on intimate partner violence in León, Nicaragua, and worked as a Civic Digital Fellow at the U.S. Census Bureau.

I ❤️ censuses, public libraries, and the postal service.

Publications

Gargiulo, Maria. 2022. “Statistical biases, measurement challenges, and recommendations for studying patterns of femicide in conflict.” Peace Review (ahead of print). Available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2022.2049002 [Accepted version]

Dumaine, Logan, Ragnhild Nordås, Maria Gargiulo, and Elisabeth Wood. 2021. “Repertoires of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict: Introducing the RSVAC Data Package.” Journal of Peace Research (ahead of print). Available online: https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433211044674

Gargiulo, Maria and Megan Price. 2021. “Lies, Damned Lies, and ‘Official’ Statistics.” Health and Human Rights Journal. Available online: https://www.hhrjournal.org/2021/06/lies-damned-lies-and-official-statistics/

Johndrow, James, Patrick Ball, Maria Gargiulo and Kristian Lum. 2020. “Estimating the Number of SARS-CoV-2 Infections and the Impact of Mitigation Policies in the United States.” Harvard Data Science Review. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1162/99608f92.7679a1ed