Curriculum Vitae

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Education

PhD	University of Minnesota	2001
B.A. with High Distinction	University of Michigan	1991

Areas of Research

Political Behavior and Research Methods

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University

Secondary appointment: Assistant Professor of Psychology: Social and Health Sciences, January 2003 to present

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, January 2001-present

Secondary appointment in Psychology (SHS) January 2003

Lecturer, Department of Political Science, September 2000-December 2000

Minnesota Center for Survey Research

Project Manager, 1999-2000

Managed six supervisors and twenty interviewers during a large (N=800) in-person CAPI (Computer Aided in-Person Interviewing) survey of a specialized and challenging population.

Metro Area Project

Research Assistant, 1998-1999

Set up a template for categorizing the electoral volatility of state house districts that will be used by future research assistants.

Political Psychology

Editorial Assistant, 1997-1998

Solely responsible for the day to day operations of the journal including manuscript flow, interactions with the editorial board, copy editor, publisher, reviewers and authors as well as channeling manuscripts to one of the journal's three co-authors

Center for the Study of Political Psychology, University of Minnesota

Administrative Fellow, 1996-1997

Solely responsible for the administrative tasks of an interdisciplinary research center; coordinated and/or assisted up to four interdisciplinary research groups; wrote the (successful) application for renewal of the Center's grant of institutional support and gathered supporting materials; coordinated and organized several multi-speaker symposia that are now under review as an edited volume with Cambridge University Press.

Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota

Undergraduate Academic Advisor, 1995-1996

This paid position consisted of serving as one of two advisors to approximately 300 undergraduates who declared political science as their major or minor. Duties included helping students select courses matched to their interests and the department's requirements, promoting political science as a major and helping undergraduates set up independent study and internship projects.

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, 1994-1997

American Political Parties, Politics of Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, World Politics

National Election Studies, Health and Retirement Study, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

Coder, 1992

Reveived booklets after processing by interviewers and editors. Entered data from these paper booklets into a mainframe computer system.

Bratislava, Slovakia

English Teacher, 1991-1992

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

End of Millennium Fellowship, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota, 1999-2000
Grant for Dissertation Research, Ph.D. Minor in Political Psychology, University of Minnesota, 1998
Student Travel Grant, APSA Organized Section on Political Psychology, 1998
Research Grant, The Arleen Carlson Endowment and the Ph.D. Minor in Political Psychology, University of Minnesota, 1995
Travel and Tuition Grant for the Summer Institute in Political Psychology, Ph.D. Minor in Political Psychology, Ohio State University, Summer 1994
Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota, 1993-1994

Professional Service

Dept Committees

Member, Department Computer Committee, 2002-2003

Member, Adjunct Appointment Committee, 2002-2003

member, American Search Committee, 2002

University Committee

Member, Faculty Technology Liason with the College of Arts and Sciences, 2002-2003

Other

Reviewer, Reviewer for Journals, present
   American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Psychology, Political Research Quarterly, and proposals to Time- sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS)

Member, Advisory Board, Center for Information and Research on Civil Learning and Engagement, 2001-present

Editorial Assistant, Political Psychology, 1997-1998
   Solely responsible for the day to day operations of the journal including manuscript flow, interactions with the editorial board, copy editor, publisher, reviewers and authors as well as channeling manuscripts to one of the journal's three co-editors.

Administrative Fellow, Center for the Study of Political Psychology, 1996-1997
   Solely responsible for the administrative tasks of an interdisciplinary research center; coordinated and/or assisted up to four interdisciplinary research groups; wrote the (successful) applicaiton for renewal of the Center's grant of institutional support and gathered supporting materials; coordinated and organized several multi-speaker symposia that are now under review as an edited volume with Cambridge University Press.

Institute for Social Research, National Election Studies, Health and Retirement Study, 1992
   Received booklets after processing by interviewers and editors. Entered data from these paper booklets into a mainframe computer system.

Publications

Journal Articles

1. John E. Transue, Identity Salience, Identity Acceptance, and Racial Policy Attitudes: American National Identity as a Uniting Force, American Journal of Political Science, vol. 51 no. 1 (January, 2007), pp. 78-91.
2. John L. Sullivan and John E. Transue, The Psychological Foundations of Democracy: A Selective Review of Research on Political Tolerance, Interpersonal Trust and Social Capital, Annual Review of Psychology, vol. 50 (1999) (Reviewed recent empirical literature on tolerance and social capital and suggested promising areas for future research.).
3. Burgess, Diane J., Beth Haney, Mark Snyder, John L. Sullivan, and John E. Transue, Rocking the Vote: Using Personalized Messages to Motivate Political Participation, Public Opinion Quarterly, vol. 64 no. 1 (2000) (When Rock the Vote, an organization dedicated to increasing political participation by young Americans, changed the format of pledge cards that reminded young voters to turn out, it created a natural experiment. We found that when personalized messages are used as reminders, the youth targeted by Rock the Vote were more likely to vote.).
4. Lavine, Howard, Diana Burgess, Mark Snyder, John E. Transue, John L. Sullivan, Beth Haney and Stephen H. Wagner, Threat, Authoritarianism, and Voting: An Investigation of Personality and Persuasion, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, vol. 25 no. 3 (1999) (By combining a controlled experiment with the actual voting records of the subjects, we show that when people high in authoritarianism receive threatening messages, a causal chain is set in motion that leads to higher turnout. This extends research on authoritarianism, which has been largely attitudinal, to American voting behavior.).
5. Rahn, Wendy, and John E. Transue, Social Trust and Value Change: The Decline of Social Capital in American Youth, 1976-1995, Political Psychology, vol. 19 no. 3 (1998) (Using 20 years of surveys of American high school students, this paper shows that one important and previously neglected source of the steep decline in generalized social trust among young people is the large increase in materialistic values. The paper discusses how this explanation is congruent with the expectations of Durkheim and Tocqueville regarding the influence of materialism on the health of societies.).