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Department of Political Science
polisci@umn.edu
612-624-4144
polisci@umn.edu
612-624-4144
Current Students
| Student | Area | Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Michal Reifen Tagar | Social Psychology | Morality,Identity, emotions, culture and group dynamics especially as they relate to groups in conflict |
| Matt Cravens More About Matt |
Social Psychology | Voter turnout and habit, political participation, voter mobilization strategies, and the role of self-interest in public opinion |
| Kyle Kurowski | Social Psychology | Political decision making, ideology, and biases in legal settings |
| HK Christie | Curriculum Instruction | Political literacy, praxis pedagogy and the culture of teaching |
| Andrea Miller | Social Psychology | Group-based inequality and discrimination, psychological processes in the criminal justice system, social consequences of political ideology |
| Joe Vitriol | Social Psychology | Psychology and law, political information-processing and extremism, social perception, judgments, decision-making, sources of individual and collective action |
| Grace Deason More About Grace Website |
Social Psychology | Social-psychological processes that perpetuate inequality (stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination) and ways they manifest in employment and political contexts. Dissertation research focuses on the role of motherhood and traditional maternal values in political campaigns |
| Philip Chen | Political Science | U.S. electoral campaigns, political communication |
| Caitlyn Dwyer | Political Science | Dissertation examines state and party rules governing presidential nomination contests and their effect on nomination outcomes, candidate behavior, and voter turnout. Research interests include: american politics, campaigns and elections, presidential nominations, and electoral behavior |
| Geoff Sheagley More About Geoff |
Political Science | Political decision making, motivated reasoning, political methodologies |
| Corrie Hunt More ABout Corrie |
Social Psychology | Emotion, the structure of political attitudes, intergroup relations, the psychological antecedents of ideology, the role of values vs. self-interest in attitudes toward social policies |
| Nathan Gilkerson More About Nathan |
journalism mass comm | Political communication and advertising, impact of entertainment and social media on politics, motivated processing |
| Erik Girvan | Social Psychology | Implicit attitudes and jurisprudence, the effects of social and legal norms, message framing, and individual differences on the effectiveness of policies aimed at changing behavior |
| Brad Lippmann | Social Psychology | |
| Chris Miller | Social Psychology | Social influences on polititcal participation, self-esteem and political identity |
| Allison Williams | Social Psychology | Ideology and political attitudes, political framing, intergroup conflict |
| Emily Fisher More About Emily |
Social Psychology | Intergroup attitudes, social categorization, social capital, contact theory, and motivated social cognition |
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