Richard L. Clark
Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Public Service Associate
Governmental Services and Research
706.542.9404
clarkcviog.uga.edu

Dr. Clark is a political scientist with a strong background in public opinion and survey research methodology. He manages the Survey Research Unit, which conducts surveys and program evaluations for local governments and state agencies. Dr. Clark also conducts the Institute’s public policy poll, the Peach State Poll, which he initiated in October 2001, and he is currently president of the Southern Association for Public Opinion Research (SAPOR).

Before coming to CVIOG, Dr. Clark was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut, where he spent a year teaching in and directing the Masters of Survey Research Program. He also worked as a project manager at the Center for Survey Research and Analysis, where he managed several telephone and Internet survey projects. Prior to that, he was a research associate at the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, the world’s largest public opinion data archive.

Fields of interest: public opinion on political and social issues; political polling; civic engagement; and survey research methodology