Tyler T. Reny is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics & Policy. His research uses diverse methods and original datasets to examine how demographic change, elites, and media shape mass attitudes and behavior. His work has been published in PNAS, PNAS Nexus, American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, and British Journal of Political Science, among other leading journals. He has received multiple Emerging Scholar Awards from the American Political Science Association in both the Political Psychology section as well as Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section.
Tyler’s research has been featured in numerous national and local media outlets, including The Washington Post, Vox, FiveThirtyEight, and The Economist.
Learn more at: www.tylerreny.com
Tyler Reny, Benjamin J. Newman, Marcel Roman, and David O. Sears. 2025. “Late-adolescents entering college intending a career as police officers hold more right-leaning views than their peers.” forthcoming at Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
Jessica Geiger and Tyler Reny. 2024. “Embracing the Status Hierarchy: How Sexism, Immigration Attitudes, and Prejudice Shaped Non-White Support for Trump” Perspectives on Politics.
Tyler Reny, Benjamin Newman, John Holbein, and Hans Hassell. 2023. “Public mass shootings cause large surges in Americans’ engagement with gun policy” PNAS Nexus.
Newman, Benjamin, Tyler Reny, and Bea-Sim Ooi. 2022. “The Color of Disparity: Racialized Income Inequality and Support for Liberal Economic Policies” Journal of Politics
Tyler Reny and Benjamin J. Newman. 2021. “The Opinion Mobilizing Effect of Social Protest Against Police Violence: Evidence from the 2020 George Floyd Protests” American Political Science Review.
Tyler Reny, and Benjamin J. Newman. 2018. “Protecting the Right to Discriminate: The Second Great Migration and Racial Threat in the American West.” American Political Science Review.
Computational Tools for Social Science
Visualizing Data
American Political Behavior
Survey Research
Identity Politics