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I am an associate professor at Georgetown University with appointments in the McCourt School of Public Policy and the Department of Government. I am affiliated with the Massive Data Institute and the Lab for Globalization and Shared Prosperity and am a faculty advisor to the Institute of Politics and Public Service. With Hans Noel, I coordinate the Working Group in Public Opinion and Political Parties.
I study public opinion, the news media, partisan polarization, and the loss of confidence in institutions, mainly in the U.S. political system. My first book, Why Americans Hate the Media and How it Matters, won the Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and the McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research. I also co-authored the book Words that Matter: How the News and Social Media Shaped the 2016 Presidential Campaign. I direct the American Institutional Confidence Poll, a panel survey with waves in 2018, 2021 and 2023. I have been a member of the Executive Council of the Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior section of the American Political Science Association, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, a visiting researcher at Science Po Paris and at the University of California, Berkeley. I currently serve on the Task Force on 2024 Pre-Election Polling of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. |