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EMPLOYMENT CARLETON COLLEGE Department of Political Science Research Associate, Jan. 2016-Dec. 2017 Visiting Assistant Professor, Sept. 2016-June 2017 WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY Department of Government Visiting Assistant Professor, Sept. 2012-June 2013 EDUCATION DUKE UNIVERSITY Ph.D., Political Science; May 2012 Dissertation: Rallying Around the Party: A Theory of Party Identity Linkage Committee: John H. Aldrich (chair), Sunshine Hillygus, Wendy Wood, and Christopher Johnston Fields: American Politics; Political Methodology DUKE UNIVERSITY M.A., Political Science; 2009 BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY B.A. (Magna Cum Laude), Political Science; 2006 PUBLICATIONS “Static Stability and Evolving Constraint: Preference Stability and Ideological Structure in the Mass Public.” 2016. American Politics Research 44: 415-447. (with Jacob M. Montgomery) “Political Participation, Polarization, and Public Opinion: Activism and the Merging of Partisan and Ideological Polarization.” 2011. In Facing the Challenge of Democracy: Explorations in the Analysis of Public Opinion and Political Participation, Paul M. Sniderman and Benjamin Highton, eds. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 185-206. (with John Aldrich) WORKING PAPERS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS “Party Identity, Threat, and Emotions.” Accepted at the 2016 Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, Sept 1-2. “Protecting the Party: Party Identity Threat and Evaluation Polarization.” Accepted at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA,
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Aug. 30 - Sept 2. “Who Said That? Source Bias and Discounting Negative Political Messages.” Presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, Jan. 12-14. (with John H. Aldrich, Amanda Grigg, and Wendy Wood.) “Rallying Around the Party Symbol: Party Identity Strength and Temporary Candidate Evaluation Polarization.” Poster presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, Sept. 1-4. “Distinguishing the Map from the Terrain: Improving Measurement with Multitrait-Multimethod Techniques in Political Science Research.” Presented at the 2010 Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 22-25. (with Jacob M. Montgomery) “A Latent Variable Multitrait-Multimethod Analysis: Examining Scales of Efficacy and Trust.” Poster presented at the 2009 Society for Political Methodology Summer Conference, New Haven, CT, July 23-25. (with Jacob M. Montgomery) “Candidate Evaluations, Negative Messages, and Source Bias.” Presented at the 2009 Meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology, Dublin, Ireland, July 14-17. (with John H. Aldrich and Wendy Wood) “The Changing Donor Pool, 1976-2004.” Presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 3-6. (with John H. Aldrich and Jacob M. Montgomery) RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS American institutions (political parties and Congress), political psychology, public opinion, political participation, campaigns and elections, and quantitative/qualitative research methods and design. RESEARCH AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching Wesleyan University Government Department: Thesis Advising, Justin Metz. 2012-2013. Wesleyan University. “The Drone Wars: Uncovering the Dynamics and Scope of United States Drone Strikes.” Awarded Honors in Government. Instructor, American Political Parties, GOVT 238, Spring 2013 Instructor, Public Opinion in American Politics, GOVT 246, Spring 2013 Instructor, Political Psychology, GOVT 369, Fall 2012 Instructor, American Government & Politics, GOVT 151, Fall 2012 Duke University Political Science Department: Teaching Assistant for Kerry Haynie, American Political Systems, Fall 2010, Fall 2008
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Teaching Assistant for Chris Gelpi, Introduction to Political Inquiry, Fall 2009 Teaching Assistant for John Aldrich, Campaigns and Elections, Spring 2009 Teaching Assistant for Scott de Marchi, Quantitative Political Analysis I, Spring 2008 Research Administrator of the Duke Political Science Research Pool, Fall 2011 - Spring 2012 Conducted data analysis of the 2008 National American Election Study for Change and Continuity in the 2008 Elections, January - December 2009 Data management for the 2004 Presidential Donor Survey, Summer 2007 GRANTS, HONORS, AND AWARDS Robert Wilson Graduate Fellow in American Politics, 2009, 2010, and 2012 Duke Interdisciplinary Initiative in Social Psychology (DIISP) research grant, April 2009; October 2008 DEPARTMENT SERVICE Duke Political Science Graduate Student Colloquium (GSC), co-organizer, 2008-2012
REFERENCES John H. Aldrich Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science Duke University
[email protected] (919)660-4346 James W. McGuire Professor, Department of Government Wesleyan University
[email protected] (860) 685-2487 Wendy Wood Provost Professor of Psychology and Business University of Southern California
[email protected] (213)740-5504 D. Sunshine Hillygus Associate Professor of Political Science Duke University
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