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D. Sunshine Hillygus, Professor of Political Science  

Office Location: 140 Science Drive, 203 Gross H, Box 90204, Durham, NC 27708
Duke Box: 90204
Email Address: hillygus@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.duke.edu/~hillygus/

Areas of Expertise

    Education:
    Ph.D., Stanford University, 2003
    M.A., Stanford University, 2000

    Research Description: Professor Hillygus has published widely on the topics of American political behavior, campaigns and elections, survey methods, public opinion, and information technology and politics. She is co-author of The Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues in Political Campaigns (Princeton University Press, 2008) and The Hard Count: The Social and Political Challenges of the 2000 Census (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006). From 2003-2009, she taught at Harvard University, where she was the Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government and founding director of the Program on Survey Research.

    Teaching (Spring 2025):

    • Polsci 635.01, Survey methodology practicum Synopsis
      Gross hall 111, W 01:40 PM-04:10 PM

    Recent Publications   (More Publications)

    1. Tang, J; Hillygus, DS; Reiter, JP. "Using Auxiliary Marginal Distributions in Imputations for Nonresponse while Accounting for Survey Weights, with Application to Estimating Voter Turnout." Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology 12.1 (February, 2024): 155-182. [doi]  [abs]
    2. Jamieson, KH; Lupia, A; Amaya, A; Brady, HE; Bautista, R; Clinton, JD; Dever, JA; Dutwin, D; Goroff, DL; Hillygus, DS; Kennedy, C; Langer, G; Lapinski, JS; Link, M; Philpot, T; Prewitt, K; Rivers, D; Vavreck, L; Wilson, DC; McNutt, MK. "Protecting the integrity of survey research.." PNAS nexus 2.3 (March, 2023): pgad049. [doi]  [abs]
    3. Endres, K; Hillygus, DS; Debell, M; Iyengar, S. "A randomized experiment evaluating survey mode effects for video interviewing." Political Science Research and Methods 11.1 (January, 2023): 144-159. [doi]  [abs]
    4. Akande, O; Madson, G; Hillygus, DS; Reiter, JP. "Leveraging Auxiliary Information on Marginal Distributions in Nonignorable Models for Item and Unit Nonresponse.." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, (Statistics in Society) 184.2 (April, 2021): 643-662. [doi]  [abs]
    5. Madson, GJ; Hillygus, DS. "All the Best Polls Agree with Me: Bias in Evaluations of Political Polling." Political Behavior 42.4 (December, 2020): 1055-1072. [doi]  [abs]

    Highlight:
    Professor Hillygus has published widely on the topics of American political behavior, campaigns and elections, survey methods, public opinion, and information technology and politics.  She is co-author of Making Young Voters:  Converting Civic Attitudes into Civic Action (Cambridge University Press, 2020), The Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues in Political Campaigns (Princeton University Press, 2008) and The Hard Count: The Social and Political Challenges of the 2000 Census (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006). She is director of the Duke Initiative on Survey Methodology (https://dism.duke.edu/) and co-director of the Polarization Lab (https://www.polarizationlab.com/).

    D. Sunshine Hillygus