ABOUT ME
I am a Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside. My research focuses on how the political environment shapes public opinion and political behavior. I received my PhD in political science from Duke University. Prior to joining the University of California, Riverside, I served as Assistant Professor (2003-2009) and then Associate Professor of Political Science (2009-2015) at Claremont Graduate University.
I am co-author of Democracy at Risk: How Terrorist Threats Affect the Public, published with the University of Chicago Press (2009), and Framing Immigrants: News Coverage, Public Opinion and Policy, published with the Russell Sage Foundation (2016). I am also co-editor of The Hillary Effect: Perspectives on Clinton’s Legacy (2020) and co-author of Change and Continuity in the 2020 elections (2022) and Change and Continuity in the 2020 and 2022 elections (2023). My work has also appeared in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Electoral Studies, the Journal of Politics, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Perspectives on Politics, PNAS, Political Behavior, Political Research Quarterly, Political Psychology, Public Opinion Quarterly, among other journals. I have received support for some of this research from the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and Time Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences.
I am director of the UCR Identity and Politics Lab, and served as field editor of American Political Behavior for the Journal of Politics from January, 2015-January, 2019.