D. Sunshine Hillygus, Professor

Contact Info:

Teaching (Fall 2025):

• POLSCI 560S.01, POLITICAL POLARIZATION Synopsis

  Allen 306, Th 12:00 PM-02:30 PM

Education:

Ph.D., Stanford University, 2003

M.A., Stanford University, 2000

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.

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, vol. 12 no. 1 (February, 2024), pp. 155-182, Oxford University Press (OUP) [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, vol. 2 no. 3 (March, 2023), pp. 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, vol. 11 no. 1 (January, 2023), pp. 144-159, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [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), vol. 184 no. 2 (April, 2021), pp. 643-662 [doi]  [abs].
5. Madson, GJ; Hillygus, DS, All the Best Polls Agree with Me: Bias in Evaluations of Political Polling, Political Behavior, vol. 42 no. 4 (December, 2020), pp. 1055-1072 [doi]  [abs].