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Assistant Professor of Politics at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa. Ph.D. in 2019 from the department of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduate student affiliate of the MIT Political Methodology Lab. Studies American politics, focusing on state politics, political messaging, public opinion, and quantitative methodology. Her work examines the dynamics of state politics in an increasingly nationalized context. Studies how governors and state parties shift their rhetoric towards elections, and how the mass public reacts to such shifts. Looks for changes in ideological heterogeneity among political elites as elections approach, and how often governors use national politics to frame issues. Finally, examines the public’s response to the governor’s “going national.” Uses social media data, text analysis, and survey experiments to answer these questions. Research addresses the relevance and consequences of a federal system when it comes to state politics and political behavior. This question is increasingly important as we are faced with evidence that state political idiosyncrasies are disappearing. Methodologically, work looks to bring text and social media to answer this question in ways we are unable to do with existing data sources, such as state of the state addresses or state party platforms.

Brooks Simpson is a historian of the United States. 

He studies American political and military history as well as the American presidency, specializing in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Simpson a Foundation Professor of History in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts.

He is the author of six books and co-author and co-editor of ten more. His book Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1865 (2000) was a New York Times Notable Book and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Simpson has appeared C-SPAN and PBS' American Experience. In 2009 the U.S. State Department asked him to travel to Turkey for two weeks to lecture on Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama in historical context.

Yphtach (Yph) Lelkes is an Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication. He studies public opinion, political psychology, and political communication.

His interests lie at the intersection of political communication, public opinion, and political psychology. In the broadest sense, he is interested in the antecedents, structure, and consequences of citizens鈥� political attitudes. He has focused on three, often overlapping, research questions: (1) What are the roots, structure, and consequences of affective polarization? (2) What is the impact of changes to the information environment on political attitudes? (3) What are the psychological underpinning and structure of political belief systems?

His work appears in top field journals in Communication (Journal of Communication, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication), Political Science (American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics), Psychology (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology), as well as general interest journals (PNAS, Nature Human Behavior). 

He takes a problem- rather than methods-based approach to social science. As such, he regularly employ traditional methods (such as surveys, lab & field experiments, and quasi-experiments) as well as more computationally intensive methods (using, e.g., geographic data, huge administrative datasets, and automated text analysis).

He is also the director of the Democracy and Information Group, where he explores these and related issues.

Before joining the University of Pennsylvania, he was faculty at the Amsterdam School of Communication. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Lelkes is a faculty affiliate at the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics and a fellow at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research. He also holds a secondary appointment in the Penn Political Science department.

I study race and ethnicity in American politics. Within this broad field, I focus on White racial attitudes generally and the attitude of racial sympathy - defined as White distress over Black suffering - specifically. Racial sympathy is a distinct, but understudied, White racial attitude with important political consequences. Using multiple methods including survey research, experimental studies, participant observation, and long-form interviews, my book project examines the origins and depths of this phenomena as well as the conditions that give rise to its political expression. My 2021 article in the Journal of Politics summarizes this work. I have also published research on guilt and prejudice among White Americans.

My research has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post/Monkey Cage, Vox, The Nation, Mother Jones, and Salon.com. I have also provided commentary on race and American politics in the New York Times, NPR's Code Switch and Fivethirtyeight.com.

At Wellesley, I teach courses related to American politics, race and politics, political psychology, and research methods. All of my courses, regardless of title, focus on the role of race and ethnicity in American politics.

I grew up in a multiracial and interfaith household. Prior to graduate school, I worked in politics and have experience at the federal, state, and local levels of American government. I was also a Fulbright Grantee in South Korea. Outside of academics, I enjoy watching plays and musicals and spending time with my daughters.

Dr. Adam Cayton, who has a Ph.D. in Political Science, conducts research on representation in Congress, legislative institutions, campaign effects, institutional change and other topics.

Cayton, an associate professor of government, joined UWF in 2016 after receiving a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Colorado. His fields of study were American politics and research methodology.

He has examined such subjects as why members of Congress 鈥渇lip flop鈥� on issues and why some state-level institutions survive longer than others. His work has appeared in State Politics & Policy Quarterly and Political Research Quarterly.

Cayton鈥檚 current research includes a study of legislation proposed in response to the Great Recession, how the changing nature of campaigns affects congressional committees, and the effects of field offices on voter turnout.

His methodological training includes statistical modeling and maximum likelihood estimation, geographic information systems, multilevel modeling, and network analysis.

Cayton received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina-Asheville, where he majored in political science and Spanish and graduated magna cum laude.

Dr. Alfred 鈥婫. 鈥婥uz谩n, distinguished university professor of political science, teaches primarily American and 鈥媍omparative 鈥媝olitics.   

Born in Havana, Cuba, Cuz谩n can trace his interest in political science to January 7, 1959: the day Fidel Castro triumphantly rode into Havana after 鈥婥uban dictator Fulgencio Batista fled the country. Two years later, when Castro鈥檚 plans to establish a Soviet-style communist regime became evident, 鈥婥uz谩n and his family immigrated to Miami. 

During his 40-year 鈥媋cademic career - all but four of those spent at UWF - 鈥婥uz谩n鈥� has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships: 鈥媡wo Fulbright scholar鈥� grants (2015 and 1983)鈥�, 鈥媠everal 鈥婲ational Endowment for the Humanities Fellow鈥媠hips鈥� (2004, 1996, 1992, 1989 and 1988), 鈥媋 鈥婻euben Askew Fellowsh鈥媔p and a Henry Salvatori Fellow鈥媠hip. He chaired the Department of Government at UWF from 1992 to 2012. He 鈥媓as published articles in American and Latin American politics. He has also co-authored several articles on the Pollyvote, a model for predicting the outcome of presidential elections, which received media attention. This work is available at www.pollyvote.com.

Cuz谩n鈥檚 鈥�2015 鈥婩ulbright schola鈥媟 grant enabled him to teach American and Latin American politics at the University of Tartu, Estonia, one of the oldest universities in northern Europe.

He received a bachelor鈥檚 degree in government and economics from the University of Miami, and a master鈥檚 and doctorate degrees in political science, with a minor in economics, from Indiana University.

Timothy M. LaPira, PhD, is professor of political science at James Madison University in Virginia and faculty affiliate at the Center for Effective Lawmaking at the University of Virginia. His expertise is on Congress, interest groups, and lobbying. His books include  (University Press of Kansas, 2017) and  (University of Chicago Press, 2020). His research has been funded by The National Science Foundation, Sunlight Foundation, Democracy Fund, Hewlett Foundation, the American Political Science Association, Data for Progress, Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, and the Dirksen Congressional Center. He has written more than twenty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and serves on the editorial boards for the academic journals Legislative Studies Quarterly and Interest Groups & Advocacy. He previously worked on Capitol Hill as the American Political Science Association Public Service Fellow at the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress and as a legislative assistant to a member of Congress in the 1990s. LaPira was also a researcher at the Center for Responsive Politics, where he was responsible for developing the Lobbying and Revolving Door databases on OpenSecrets.org.

Dr. Hallenbrook teaches courses in political theory, American politics, and constitutional law. His research focuses on conceptions of political obligation in the Anglo-American world, as well as how political theory informs modern public policy debates (including gun control and climate change policy). His work has been published by the Review of Politics and Critical Policy Studies.

Shyam Sriram, PhD, is an assistant professor of political science and director of the Political Science Program at Canisius University.  He is available to offer expert commentary on the complex intersections of religion, immigration policy, and American politics. His unique background and extensive research experience provide valuable insights into some of today's most pressing social and political issues.
Areas of Analysis: Religion and American Politics:

Historical and contemporary relationships between religious beliefs and political behavior
Intersection of race, gender, and American identity with religious views
Religious nationalism in contemporary politics
Evolution of religious freedom and the establishment clause

Immigration and Refugee Policy:

Federal, state, and local coordination of refugee programs
Immigration's impact on religious and political landscapes
Public attitudes toward immigration across demographic groups
Local implementation of national immigration policies

Background: 
Dr. Sriram brings both academic expertise and personal insight to these topics. As the founder of Canisius University's Muslim Students Association and Every Campus a Refuge, he demonstrates a deep commitment to social justice and practical application of political science principles. His forthcoming book examining JFK Jr.'s immigration legacy adds to his numerous academic publications.
Areas of Expertise:

American Politics
Religion and Politics (particularly Islam)
Refugee Resettlement
U.S. Immigration Politics and Policy
Asian Pacific American Politics
State Policy

Education:

PhD, Political Science, University of California at Santa Barbara
MA, Political Science, University of California at Santa Barbara
MA, Political Science, Georgia State University
BA, Political Science, Purdue University

Publications: 
Sriram, Shyam K. 2024 (Forthcoming). An Introduction to Refugee Resettlement in the United States. Solano Beach, CA: Cognella Academic Publishing.
 

Aleksander Ksiazkiewicz is an associate professor in the  and the  at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. 
 expands on core theories of American politics and political psychology by integrating insights drawn from behavioral genetic, implicit social cognition, and chronobiological research. His genetic research examines the role of genes in political ideology, interest in politics, and political participation. These studies also shed light on the relationships between politics and other phenomena such as religiosity, Big Five personality traits, and cognitive styles. In addition, his work through the Genomic Security and Privacy Themeat the Woese Institute for Genomic Biology examines the public’s attitudes toward genetics, people’s understandings and concerns about the security and privacy of their genetic data, and individuals’ willingness to participate in genetic research.
His second stream of research uses methods from the study of implicit social cognition to develop new insights into a diverse set of political attributes and outcomes, including candidate traits evaluations, vote choice, political knowledge, racial attitudes, and immigration policy attitudes. These studies use multiple research designs (large-N panel studies, experiments), various measurement techniques (surveys, priming, latency-based measures), and diverse samples (student in lab, non-student by mail, online via Amazon Mechanical Turk). 
His newest stream of research considers the intersection of chronobiology and politics. He examines how differences in sleep preferences and access to adequate sleep are related to differences in political attitudes, in media consumption patterns and political knowledge, and in interest and participation in politics, among other outcomes. He is also interested in how society and the political system structure time and privilege particular temporal patterns, as well as the extent to which individuals endorse the social organization of time (chrononormativity). 
 include American politics, political psychology, and biopolitics.