Teaching & Research Interests
Applied: Campaigns and Elections, Public Opinion, Political Psychology, and Congress. Methods: Statistics, Research Design, Social Choice, and Game Theory
Jennifer Merolla is an Associate Professor at Claremont Graduate University. She received her B.A. from Boston College in 1997 and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University in 2003. Her research focuses on how the political environment shapes the political behavior of individuals. She is co-author of Democracy at Risk: How Terrorist Threats Affect the Public, published with the University of Chicago Press. The book examines how worry about terrorism alters individual attitudes toward others in society, their evaluations of political leaders, and their foreign policy preferences. She also has several projects that look at the effect of campaign messages on different segments of the electorate such as Latinos, minor party supporters, and evangelicals. Her work has appeared in Electoral Studies, the Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Politica y Gobierno, Public Choice, the Canadian Journal of Political Science, and Women, Politics, and Policy.
Click here to watch an interview with Professor Merolla regarding her latest book, here to view the book, and hereto read a recent op-ed.
