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Gary King

is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University -- one of 25 with Harvard's most distinguished faculty title -- and Director of the . King develops and applies empirical methods in many areas of social science, focusing on innovations that span the range from statistical theory to practical application.

King is an elected Fellow in 8 honorary societies (National Academy of Sciences, American Statistical Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Society for Political Methodology, National Academy of Social Insurance, American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the Guggenheim Foundation) and has won more than for his work. King was elected President of the Society for Political Methodology and Vice President of the American Political Science Association. He has been a member of the Senior Editorial Board at Science, Visiting Fellow at Oxford, and Senior Science Adviser to the World Health Organization. He has written more than 185 journal articles, 20 open source software packages, and 8 books. King is a proud graduate of SUNY New Paltz (B.A., 1980) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (M.A., Ph.D., 1984). He taught at NYU for three years before coming to Harvard in 1987.

Henry E. Brady

is Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy and Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.  He received his PhD in Economics and Political Science from MIT in 1980. He has written on electoral politics and political participation, social welfare policy, political polling, and statistical methodology, and he has worked for the federal Office of Management and Budget and other organizations in Washington, D.C. He is president of the American Political Science Association, past president of the Political Methodology Society of the American Political Science Association, and director of the University of California's Survey Research Center from 1998 to 2009. He is coauthor of Letting the People Decide: Dynamics of a Canadian Election (1992) which won the Harold Innis Award for the best book in the social sciences published in English in Canada, Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics (1995) which won the Philip Converse Award for a book making a lasting contribution to public opinion research, Expensive Children in Poor Families: The Intersection of Childhood Disability and Welfare (2000), and Counting All the Votes: The Performance of Voting Technology in the United States (2001). He is co-editor of Rethinking Social Inquiry (2004) which won the Sartori Award for best book on qualitative methods, Capturing Campaign Effects (2006), and the Handbook of Political Methodology (2008). Brady has also authored numerous articles on political participation, political methodology, the dynamics of public opinion, and other topics. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2003 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2006.

Jane Junn

is an Associates Chair in the Social Sciences as well as a Professor of Political Science and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on the politics of immigration, political behavior, racial and ethnic politics, women in politics, as well as polling methods and analysis. She has authored or co-authored articles for publications including The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, Political Behavior, and Perspectives on Politics, among many others. Junn was a co-editor alongside Kerry Haynie on the 2008 book New Race Politics: Understanding Minority and Immigrant Politics (Cambridge University Press) as well as a co-author with Richard Niemi on Civic Education: What Makes Students Learn (Yale University Press, 1998) and Education and Democratic Citizenship in America alongside Norman Nie and Kenneth Stehlik-Barry (University of Chicago Press, 1996).

Junn was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in 1998 and a recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award from the American Political Science Association. She earned her Ph.D in Political Science from the University of Chicago.

Jane Mansbridge

, Charles F. Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, Emerita, is the author of the award-winning books Beyond Adversary Democracy, an empirical and normative study of face-to-face democracy, and Why We Lost the ERA, a study of anti-deliberative dynamics in social movements based on organizing for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. She is also editor or coeditor of the volumes Beyond Self-Interest, Feminism, Oppositional Consciousness, Deliberative Systems, and Negotiating Agreement in Politics. She was President of the American Political Science Association (APSA) in 2012-13. She is also the recipient of the international Johan Skytte Prize (2018), the foremost prize in the field of political science, as well as the APSA’s Lippincott, Madison, Schuck, and Kammerer awards and the International Political Science Association’s Deutsch Award. Her current work includes studies of representation, democratic deliberation, everyday activism, and the public understanding of free-rider problems.

Jeffrey Berry

's research has focused on policymaking in Washington, interest groups, Massachusetts politics, nonprofits, and urban government. He is the author of many books, including The Rebirth of Urban Democracy, which won the American Political Science Association's Gladys Kammerer Award, and Lobbying and Policy Change and A Voice for Nonprofits, each of which received the Leon Epstein Best Book Award. His book, The New Liberalism, was awarded the Aaron Wildavsky best book award by the Policy Studies Association. Other books include The Outrage Industry, The Interest Group Society, and Lobbying for the People. Berry is the recipient of the Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association and the Tufts Distinguished Scholar Award. With Tufts colleagues Jim Glaser and Debbie Schildkraut, he is at work on a large-scale project on the differences between liberals and conservatives.

Nancy Burns

is the Warren E. Miller Collegiate Professor. She has served as Chair of the Department since 2014. She directed the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research from 2005 through 2014. She served as the co-Principal Investigator (jointly with Don Kinder) of the American National Election Studies (ANES) from 1999 through 2006. The ANES is the longest-running survey in the social sciences and is a public good used by thousands of scholars around the world every year, and is the model for election studies around the world. She received APSA’s Derthick Award for the most enduring book on federalism and intergovernmental relations, APSA’s Victoria Schuck Award for the best book on gender and politics, MPSA’s Sophonisba Breckinridge Prize for the best paper in gender and politics (twice), SPSA’s Marion Irish Prize for the best paper on gender and politics, and WPSA’s Betty Nesvold Prize for the best paper on gender and politics. She has served as a Senior Fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Nancy is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has served on 62 dissertation committees, chairing 12 of these. She typically supervises two senior theses a year.She is currently working with graduate student Sara Morell, UM PhD Ashley Jardina, Shauna Shames, and Kay Lehman Schlozman on a book on gender and political participation. She is also in the midst of a many-year project with Professor Don Kinder, studying gender, race, and public opinion in the US. She is fortunate to have arrived at Michigan in 1990 as a pre-doctoral fellow. Her undergraduate degree is from the University of Kansas and her Ph.D is from Harvard.

Philip Jones

is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He is also the Research Director at the Center for Political Communication at University of Delaware and Editor-in-Chief at Public Opinion Quarterly.

His teaching and research interests center on American politics, with a particular emphasis on LGBTQ politics, public opinion, and political behavior. Jones’ current research agenda includes projects that explore straight attitudes on LGBTQ rights, the political behavior of LGBTQ people, and the effectiveness of LGBTQ interest group appeals, among other issues. His research has been featured in numerous academic and public-facing journals including American Politics Research, Political Research Quarterly, and the Brookings Institution, among others. Jones earned his Ph.D in Political Science from Harvard University in 2009.

Shauna Shames

received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2014 and was tenured at Rutgers University-Camden in 2019. She studies and teaches American politics, with a focus on gender and race. She has published books, chapters, journal articles, and reports on women as candidates, women of color and political ambition, intersectionality, Republican women, backlash, public opinion, and public policy. She teaches courses on executive power, dystopian government, women and politics, race and politics, social movements, quantitative and qualitative methods, and more. She won the Rutgers-Camden Chancellor's Awards for Teaching and for Research Creativity, both in 2018, and has served as President of the Women & Politics Organized Section of APSA (the American Political Science Association). She served several years in faculty governance at Rutgers-Camden, including as Vice President of the Faculty Senate and a one-year term on the Faculty Council, an advisory body to the Chancellor's office. Prior to her academic career, Professor Shames worked for several years in nonprofit and political offices in New York and Washington, D.C.

Traci Burch

is the author of Trading Democracy for Justice, published by the University of Chicago Press (2013) and is coauthor of Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America, published by Princeton University Press in 2012. Her book Trading Democracy for Justice won the APSA Ralph Bunche Book Award, the APSA Urban Politics Section Best Book Award, and the APSA Law and Courts Section C. Herman Pritchett Award for Best Book in the Field of Law and Courts in 2014. Her work has appeared in several peer reviewed journals, including Political Behavior, Law and Society Review, and Criminology and Public Policy. Burch also serves as Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. She earned her A.B. from Princeton University and her Ph.D from Harvard University.