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ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Assistant Professor of Political Science, 2006-present
Maxwell
School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
- Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute,
2006-present
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. in Government, University of Texas at Austin, August 2006
- M.A. in Government, University of Texas at Austin, August 2004
- Bachelor of Journalism, with honors, University of Texas at Austin, December
1998
PUBLICATIONS
- Forthcoming. "Has Television Personalized Voting
Behavior?" Political Behavior.
- 2008. "Party Reputations, Journalistic
Expectations: How Issue Ownership Influences Election News."
Political Communication 25(4), forthcoming.
- 2008. "Does the Messenger Matter?
Candidate-Media Agenda Convergence and Its Effects on Voter Issue
Salience." Political Research Quarterly
61(1): 134-146.
- 2008. "Toward a One-Party South?"
American Politics Research 36(1): 3-32. (with Seth C. McKee)
- 2005. "Candidate Qualities through a
Partisan Lens: A Theory of Trait Ownership." American Journal of Political Science 49(4):
908-923.
- 2005. "Voter Turnout in the California
Recall: Where Did the Increase Come from?" American Politics Research 33(2): 187-215. (with Brian K.
Arbour)
- 2004. "Booting Barnes: Explaining the Historic Upset in the 2002 Georgia
Gubernatorial Election." Politics & Policy 32(4): 708-739.
(with Seth C. McKee)
- 2004. "Accentuating the Personal: Media Exposure, Political Sophistication, and
Evaluations of Presidential Candidate Traits."
LBJ Journal of
Public Affairs 16(2): 86-97.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
- "Dixie's Kingmakers: Stability and Change in Southern Presidential
Primary Electorates." (with Seth C. McKee) Conditional acceptance
at Presidential Studies Quarterly.
- "The Participatory Effects of Redistricting:
Incumbency, Information Costs, and Voter Roll-off in U.S. House Elections." (with Seth C. McKee)
Revise and resubmit at American Journal of Political Science.
- "The Dynamics of Issue Attention: Candidate-Media
Agenda Convergence in Presidential Campaigns." Revise and resubmit
at Political Research Quarterly.
- "A Matter of Distinction: Candidate Similarity
and Information Processing in Election Campaigns." (with Mathieu Turgeon)
Revise and resubmit at American Politics Research.
- "Trait Ownership and Trait Effects in U.S. Senate
Elections."
- "Feminine Democrats, Masculine Republicans:
Party and Gender Stereotyping in Candidate Trait Attribution."
- "Whose Views Made the News? Media Coverage and
the March to War in Iraq." (with Matt Guardino)
- "Media Frames and the Immigration Debate."
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
- Campbell Public Affairs Institute Faculty
Research Award
- National Science Foundation: Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences,
"A Matter of Distinction: Candidate Similarity and On-line vs.
Memory-based Processing." (with Mathieu Turgeon).
- Appleby-Mosher Fund Research Grant, Maxwell
School, Syracuse University, 2007, 2008
- Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of the
Judiciary, Politics, and the Media at Syracuse University
- National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation
Improvement Research Grant,
2005-2006
- Best Graduate Student Paper, 2005 Southwestern Political Science Association
meeting (Paper title: “The Dynamics of Candidate and Media Issue
Convergence.”)
- Best Graduate Student Paper, 2004 Southwestern Political Science Association
meeting (Paper title: “Perpetuating Party Advantage: Issue Ownership and
News Media Favorability in Presidential Campaigns, 1992-2000.”)
RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
- "Applying Theories of Candidate Trait Effects to
Non-Presidential Elections," presented at the annual meeting of
the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, August 2008.
- "Feminine Democrats, Masculine Republicans:
Gender and Party Stereotyping in Candidate Trait Attribution," presented
at the spring meeting of the New York Area Political Psychology
Workshop, April 2008.
- "Whose Views Made the News? Media Coverage and the March to War in Iraq,"
with Matt Guardino, presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest
Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2008.
- "Media Frames and the Immigration Debate," presented at the annual meeting of the
Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2008.
- "Stability and Change in Southern
Presidential Primary Electorates," with Seth C. McKee, presented at the Citadel Symposium
on Southern Politics, Charleston, SC, March 2008.
- "Trait Ownership and Trait Effects in U.S. Senate
Elections," presented at the annual meeting of the American
Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August-September 2007.
- "Party and Gender
Stereotyping in Candidate Trait Attribution," presented at the
annual meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology,
Portland, OR, July 2007.
- “Has Television
Personalized Voting Behavior?”
presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science
Association, Chicago, IL, April 2007.
- "Dude, Where's My Incumbent? Voter Rolloff and
the Information Costs of Redistricting," with Seth C. McKee, presented
at the Seventh Annual Conference on State Politics and Policy, Austin,
TX, February 2007.