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# About this Booklet {.unnumbered}

The [**Harvard Gov Prefresher**](https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/prefresher) is held each year in August. All relevant information is on our website, including the day-to-day schedule. The 2024 Prefresher instructors are [António Câmara](https://ascamara.github.io/) and [Noah Dasanaike](https://noahdasanaike.github.io/), and the faculty sponsor is [Gary King](https://gking.harvard.edu).

This booklet serves as the text for the Prefresher, available as a [webpage](https://iqss.github.io/prefresher/) updated automatically and as a [printable PDF](https://github.com/IQSS/prefresher/releases) updated manually. It is the product of generations of Prefresher instructors. See below for a full list of instructors and contributors.

For information about the role of the prefresher (or "math camp") as a introduction to graduate school, you may also be interested in ["The Math Prefresher and The Collective Future of Political Science Graduate Training"](https://gking.harvard.edu/prefresher), in *PS: Political Science & Politics*, by Gary King, Shiro Kuriwaki, and Yon Soo Park.

### Authors and Contributors {.unnumbered}

-   Past Authors and Instructors: Curt Signorino 1996-1997; Ken Scheve 1997-1998; Eric Dickson 1998-2000; Orit Kedar 1999; James Fowler 2000-2001; Kosuke Imai 2001-2002; Jacob Kline 2002; Dan Epstein 2003; Ben Ansell 2003-2004; Ryan Moore 2004-2005; Mike Kellermann 2005-2006; Ellie Powell 2006-2007; Jen Katkin 2007-2008; Patrick Lam 2008-2009; Viridiana Rios 2009-2010; Jennifer Pan 2010-2011; Konstantin Kashin 2011-2012; Soledad Prillaman 2013; Stephen Pettigrew 2013-2014; Anton Strezhnev 2014-2015; Mayya Komisarchik 2015-2016; Connor Jerzak 2016-2017; Shiro Kuriwaki 2017-2018; Yon Soo Park 2018; Meg Schwenzfeier 2019; Shannon Parker 2019; Laura Royden 2020-2021; Hunter Rendleman 2020-2021; Christopher T. Kenny 2022; Jialu Li 2022; Sooahn Shin 2023; María Ballesteros 2023.
-   Repository Maintainer: Christopher T. Kenny ([christopherkenny](https://github.com/christopherkenny))
-   Past Repository Maintainers:
    -   Shiro Kurikwaki ([kuriwaki](https://github.com/kuriwaki)) 2018-2023.
-   Contributors: Thanks to Juan Dodyk ([juandodyk](https://github.com/juandodyk)), Hunter Rendleman ([hrendleman](https://github.com/hrendleman)), and Tyler Simko ([tylersimko](https://github.com/tylersimko)) for contributing to the booklet for corrections and improvements as students.

### Contributing {.unnumbered}

We transitioned the booklet into a bookdown [github repository](https://github.com/IQSS/prefresher) in 2018. As we update this version, we appreciate any bug reports or fixes appreciated.

All changes should be made in the `.Rmd` files in the project root. Changes pushed to the repository will be checked for compilation by Travis-CI. To contribute a change, please make a pull request and set the repository maintainer as the reviewer.