D. Sunshine Hillygus, Associate Professor

Contact Info:

Teaching (Spring 2015):

• POLSCI 201.01, PUBLIC OPINION Synopsis

  Gross Hall 111, MW 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

• POLSCI 239S.01, POLITICAL COMMUNICATION Synopsis

  Gross Hall 111, Tu 03:05 PM-05:35 PM

Office Hours:

Tuesday 1:30-2:30, Thursday 11:30-12:30

Education:

PhD, Stanford University, 2003

MA, University of Arkansas, 1998

BA, University of Arkansas, 1996

Specialties:

American Politics
Political Institutions
Behavior & Identities
Methods
Political Communication

Research Interests:

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.

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Frankel, Laura and D.S. Hillygus, Niche Communication in Political Campaigns, in Oxford Handbook on Political Communication, edited by Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Kate Kenski (2014), Oxford University Press .
2. Hillygus, D.S., N. Jackson, and M. Young, “Professional Respondents in Online Survey Panels,” Online Panel Research - A Data Quality Perspective., in Online Panel Research - A Data Quality Perspective, edited by M.Callegaro, R. Baker, P. Lavrakas, J. Krosnick, J. Bethlehem, and A. Gritz (2014), Wiley .
3. Aldrich, J., B. Bishop, R. Hatch, D.S. Hillygus, and D. Rohde, Blame, Responsibility, and the Tea Party in the 2010 Midterm Elections, Political Behavior (2013) .
4. Deng, Y., D.S. Hillygus, J. Reiter, and Y. Si., Handling Attrition in Longitudinal Studies: The Case for Refreshment Samples, Statistical Science, vol. 28 no. 2 (2013), pp. 238-256 .
5. Frankel, Laura and D. Sunshine Hillygus, Panel Attrition and the Survey Experience, Political Analysis (2013) .