Jonathan Cervas
Assistant Teaching Professor, Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology
- Posner Hall 374
- 412-268-4519
Bio
Jonathan Cervas is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), specializing in redistricting, voting rights, and American political institutions. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine, in 2020. Cervas has held positions as Special Master in New York, Consultant to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and Redistricting Consultant to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He also served as Assistant to the Special Master on three federal court cases drawing remedial maps for either the Voting Rights Act or racial gerrymandering, and prepared a remedy for the federal court in Allen v. Milligan. Additionally, he has testified as a credible fact expert in numerous redistricting lawsuits. He has peer-reviewed articles in various journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Election Law Journal, Albany Law Review, and Political Geography. He was profiled by the New York Times in May of 2022.