D. Sunshine Hillygus, Professor

Contact Info:

Teaching (Spring 2026):

• POLSCI 452S.01, DIGITAL MEDIA AND POLITICS Synopsis

  Gross Hall 111, W 01:25 PM-03:55 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. Shandhi, MMH; Singh, K; Janson, N; Ashar, P; Singh, G; Lu, B; Hillygus, DS; Maddocks, JM; Dunn, JP, Assessment of ownership of smart devices and the acceptability of digital health data sharing., NPJ digital medicine, vol. 7 no. 1 (February, 2024), pp. 44 [doi]  [abs].
3. Graham, MH; Hillygus, DS; Trexler, A, Misleading Polls in the Media: Does Survey Clickbait Have Social Consequences?, Public Opinion Quarterly, vol. 88 no. 2 (January, 2024), pp. 315-336 [doi]  [abs].
4. DeBell, M; Hillygus, DS; Shaw, DR; Valentino, NA, Validating the “Genuine Pipeline” to Limit Social Desirability Bias in Survey Estimates of Voter Turnout, Public Opinion Quarterly, vol. 88 no. 2 (January, 2024), pp. 268-290 [doi]  [abs].
5. Combs, A; Tierney, G; Guay, B; Merhout, F; Bail, CA; Hillygus, DS; Volfovsky, A, Reducing political polarization in the United States with a mobile chat platform., Nature human behaviour, vol. 7 no. 9 (September, 2023), pp. 1454-1461 [doi]  [abs].