Gianna DiBartolo-Bastian
Department of Political Science
Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences
89 George Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Education
Candidate for Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science
Rutgers University | New Brunswick, NJ
Fields: American Politics; Public Law; Research Methods
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
Graduate Summer Program. University of Michigan. 2024
Attendee of advanced statistics and data analysis training in cutting-edge and specialized methodological techniques for academics and professionals.
Focus areas included Judicial Decision-Making and Policy Data Analysis, and Navigating Text: Natural Language Processing and Text Mining with R
Bachelor of Science, Political Science
Florida State University | Tallahassee, FL
College of Social Sciences and Public Policy
Minors in Psychology, Child and Adolescent Development, and
Law and Sociology
Undergraduate Certificate in U.S. National Intelligence Studies
Undergraduate Certificate in Emergency Management & Public Policy
PROFESSIONAL Experience
Instructor and Graduate Teaching Assistant
Rutgers University
Department of Political Science
Legal Philosophy, Rights and Justice, online
American Constitutional Law
The Politics of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
The Politics of Crime and Criminal Justice
Law and Society
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources
The Politics of Environmental Issues, in person
University of South Florida
School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies
American Government
Constitutional Law I, II
American Presidency
Quantitative Research Associate & Legal Editor
June 2025 – Feb. 2026
Lead researcher and legal editor for a forensic psychiatry firm based in New York City specializing in evaluations pertaining to legal disputes, such as, but not limited to, traumatic stress and post-traumatic stress disorders, employment discrimination, and workplace violence. Responsible for data analysis, writing, editing, and developing research content for evaluations and legal drafting.
Specialized Patient Care Educator
May 2023 – Jan. 2025
Patient care educator for public health, health care policy, and patient interaction for Northwell Health in conjunction with various university programs at Hofstra University and Stony Brook University, for healthcare students in New York State.
Legal Assistant
Feb. - Sep. 2021
Legal drafting, research, and execution of wills, trusts, and estate planning at Mittenthal Weinstein LLP, Delray Beach, FL
CONFERENCE presentations
Gianna DiBartolo Bastian. 2025. “Applying Sears, Lapidus and Cozzens (1978) Content Analysis of Mark Twain’s Novels and Letters as a Biographical Method to the Judicial Opinions of Justice John Paul Stevens”
Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
Gianna DiBartolo Bastian. 2024. “Who Has More Privacy?
A Systematic State-by-State Comparison of the Variation in Protection Afforded by the State Right to Privacy” Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Denver, CO.
Gianna DiBartolo Bastian. 2023. “State Supreme Courts, Abortion Restrictions and New Judicial Federalism” Annual Emerging Scholars Research Conference, Eagleton Institute of Politics, NJ.
WORKING Papers
In Progress Gianna DiBartolo Bastian and Milton Heumann, 2025. The State-by-State Variation seen in the Protections Afforded by the Right to Privacy”
In Progress Gianna DiBartolo Bastian, 2025. “Applying Sears, Lapidus and Cozzens (1978) Content Analysis of Mark Twain’s Novels and Letters as a Biographical Method to the Judicial Opinions of Justice John Paul Stevens”
Research & TEACHING INTERESTS
State Constitutional Law; U.S. Constitutional Law; American Federalism; Political Institutions; American Political Development; Law and Policy; Research Methods; Computational Social Science
Grants and Fellowships
Stanley H. and Claire A. Friedelbaum Grant (2023, 2024, 2025), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
INSTITUTIONAL Service
Pre-Law Advising, Rutgers University (Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026)
Assistant Pre-Law Advisor and appointment coordinator on Rutgers New Brunswick campus
Treasurer, Political Science Graduate Association (2023-2024)
Advanced Placement Curriculum and Exam Reviewer (2025, 2026)
Professional memberships
American Political Science Association
Law and Society Association
Computational Social Science Society of America
Southern Political Science Association
Center for State Constitutional Studies at Rutgers Law
Skills
Proficient in classroom technology, and learning management systems,
differentiated instruction, curriculum development,
fostering positive learning environment
Programming languages: R, Python, SQL, JavaScript
data and policy analysis, qualitative methods,
machine learning, natural language processing,
data visualization and content creation,
survey design, literature & theory integration,
classification & prediction modeling,
large-scale dataset management
Refrences
References available upon request