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Patrick R. Miller
University of Kansas
Department of Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
Lawrence, KS 66045-3177
Office: (785) 864-9057
Fax: (785) 864-5700
[email protected]
Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor, University of Kansas, 2013 – present
Department of Political Science
Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati, 2011 – 2013
Department of Political Science
Post-Doctoral Survey Research Associate, Duke University, 2010 – 2011
Duke Initiative on Survey Methodology
Supervisor: D. Sunshine Hillygus
Visiting Assistant Professor, Duke University, Spring 2011
Department of Political Science
Education
Ph.D., Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010
Concentrations: American Politics and Research Methodology
Dissertation: The Emotional Citizen: Emotion as a Function of Political Sophistication
Adviser: Pamela Johnston Conover
Certificate in Survey Methodology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009
Odum Institute for Research in Social Science
M.A., Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007
Adviser: George R. Rabinowitz
B.A. with High Honors, College of William & Mary, 2002
Professional Experience
Teach for America, Fifth Grade, Atlanta Public Schools, 8/2002-6/2004
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Research and Teaching Interests
Political Psychology
Public Opinion
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting Behavior
Political Communication
Racial Politics
Research Methods
Survey Methodology
Experimental Methods
Refereed Publications
Miller, Patrick R. 2011. “The Emotional Citizen: Emotion as a Function of Political
Sophistication.” Political Psychology 32: 575-600.
Miller, Patrick R. 2011. “Rethinking Racial Threat: A Comparison of Latino Population Change
in the North and South.” American Review of Politics 31: 203-222.
Beskow, Laura M., Emily E. Namey, Patrick R. Miller, Daniel K. Nelson, and Alexandra
Cooper. 2012. “IRB Chairs’ Perspectives on Genotype-Driven Research Recruitment.” IRB:
Ethics & Human Research 34: 1-10.
Miller, Patrick R., and Pamela Johnston Conover. 2015. “Why Partisan Warriors Don’t Listen:
The Gendered Dynamics of Intergroup Anxiety and Partisan Conflict.” Politics, Groups, and
Identities 3: 21-39.
Miller, Patrick R., and Pamela Johnston Conover. 2015 “Red and Blue States of Mind: Partisan
Hostility and Voting in the United States.” Political Research Quarterly 68: 225-239.
Miller, Patrick R., Peter S. Bobkowski, Daniel Maliniak, and Ronald B. Rapoport. 2015.
“Talking Politics on Facebook: Network Centrality and Political Discussion Practices in Social
Media.” Political Research Quarterly 68: 377-391.
Bobkowski, Piotr S., and Patrick R. Miller. Forthcoming “Civic Implications of Secondary
School Journalism: Associations with Voting Propensity and Community Volunteering.”
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.
Bobkowski, Piotr S., Sarah Cavanah, and Patrick R. Miller. Forthcoming. "Who are the
‘Journalism Kids?’: Academic Predictors of Journalism Participation in Secondary Schools."
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator.
Miller, Patrick R., Andrew Flores, Donald P. Haider-Markel, Daniel Lewis, Barry Tadlock, and
Jami Taylor. Forthcoming. “Transgender Politics as Body Politics: The Conditional Effects of
Authoritarianism and Disgust on Transgender-Related Policy Attitudes.” Politics, Groups, and
Identities.
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Book Chapters
Miller, Patrick R. 2014. “Demographics and Issue Cleavages in the Southern Electorate.” Second
Verse, Same as the First: The 2012 Presidential Election in the South, ed. Scott E. Buchanan and
Branwell DuBose Kapeluck, pp. 3-20. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press.
Book Reviews
Review of Improving Public Opinion Surveys: Interdisciplinary Innovation and the American
National Election Studies, ed. John H. Aldrich and Kathleen M. McGraw. 2014. Perspectives on
Politics 12: 485-487.
Conference Presentations
“Interpersonal Political Polarization: Party-Driven Impression Formation in Social Media” (with
Peter S. Bobkowski); Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science
Association, April 2015, Las Vegas, NV.
“Networks of Awareness: Student Involvement in a Municipal Election” (with Robert Huckfeldt,
Ronald B. Rapoport, Daniel B. Maliniak, Matthew T. Pietryka, and Jack Reilly); Presented at the
Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2015, Chicago, IL.
“Winning Is Everything: The Psychology of Partisan Competition” (with Pamela J. Conover);
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association; April 2014,
Chicago, IL.
“Public Discourse on Voter Identification Laws: Citizen Narratives and the Implicit Role of
Partisanship and Race” (with Abby Naudet); Presented at the Citadel Symposium on Southern
Politics, March 2014, Charleston, SC.
“Emotional Appeals in Campaign Advertising: A Contextual Analysis of the 2000 and 2004
Elections”; Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
August 2012, New Orleans, LA.
“Networks of Awareness: Student Involvement in a Municipal Election” (with Robert Huckfeldt,
Ronald B. Rapoport, Daniel B. Maliniak, Matthew T. Pietryka, and Jack Reilly); Presented at the
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 2012, New Orleans, LA.
“Southern Identity as Social Identity: How Much Does ‘Southerness’ Matter to Politics?”;
Presented at the Citadel Symposium on Southern Politics, March 2012, Charleston, SC.
“The Psychology of Partisan Polarization: Red and Blue States of Mind” (with Pamela J.
Conover); Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association;
September 2011, Seattle, WA.
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“Networks of Mobilization: Student Involvement in a Municipal Election” (with Robert
Huckfeldt, Ronald B. Rapoport, Daniel B. Maliniak, Matthew T. Pietryka, and Jack Reilly);
Presented at the Annual Political Networks Conference & Workshop, June 2011, Ann Arbor, MI.
“On the Dynamics of Personality, Emotion, and Citizen Information Processing” (with Michael
B. MacKuen, George E. Marcus, and W. Russell Neumann): Presented at the Spring Meeting of
the New York Area Political Psychology Meeting; May 2011, New York, NY.
“On the Dynamics of Personality, Emotion, and Citizen Information Processing” (with Michael
B. MacKuen, George E. Marcus, and W. Russell Neumann): Presented at the Annual Meeting of
the Midwest Political Science Association; April 2011, Chicago, IL.
“Telling Stories: The Effect of Narrative Framing on Civility and Attitudes toward Same-Sex
Marriage” (with Pamela J. Conover); Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political
Science Association; April 2011, Chicago, IL.
“One Shot for Scott: Strategic Voting in the 2010 Williamsburg City Council Election” (with
Ronald B. Rapoport, Kira Allmann, and Daniel Maliniak); Presented at the Annual Meeting of
the Midwest Political Science Association; April 2011, Chicago, IL.
“Validating Self-Reported Measures of Campaign Contact in Online Surveys” (with Ronald B.
Rapoport, Kira Allmann, and Daniel Maliniak); Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern
Association for Public Opinion Research, October 2010, Raleigh, NC.
“Personality and Affective Intelligence: Trait and State in Shaping Citizens’ Usage of Political
Information” (with Michael B. MacKuen, George E. Marcus, and W. Russell Neumann);
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September
2010, Washington, DC.
“Rethinking Racial Threat: A Comparison of Latino Population Change in the North and South”;
Presented at the Citadel Symposium on Southern Politics, March 2010, Charleston, SC.
Invited Presentations
The Conversation blog. 2014. “Kansas Governor Sam Brownback Unexpectedly Survives His
Own Experiment.” 6 November.
Brookings Institute blog. 2014. “2014 Midterms: Key Issues in the Kansas Senate Race.” 23 Oct.
London School of Economics USA blog. 2014. “Not So Flat and Boring After All: How the
Kansas Senate Race Became 2014’s Most Improbably Tossup.” 21 Oct.
Lawrence Free State Festival. June 2014. “Technology and Politics” Panel.
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University of Kansas Department of Psychology, February 2014, “Telling Stories: The Effect of
Narrative Persuasion on Same-Sex Marriage Attitudes.”
Junior Statesmen Foundation Conference, October 2012, “Citizenship and Political Civility.”
University of Cincinnati Faculty Club, October 2012, Panel of the 2012 Election.
Virginia Tech North Capital Region, Virginia Tech Research Center Workshop; August 2010;
“A Practical Introduction to Survey Design, Pre-Testing, and Implementation.”
Duke Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences; April 2010;
“Rethinking Racial Threat: A Comparison of Latino Population Change in the North and South.”
College of William & Mary Government Department Research Colloquium; November 2009;
“Good Citizens Think and Feel: Emotion as a Function of Political Sophistication.”
Governor’s School of North Carolina, June 2009, “President Obama’s First 100 or So Days.”
Durham-Chapel Hill Jewish Federation, May 2009, “American Attitudes toward Health Care
Policy and Reform.”
Durham-Chapel Hill Jewish Federation, November 2008, “The 2008 Election.”
Media
I participate in regular public relations interviews with various local, state, national, and
international media outlets on a variety of topics relating to American politics and my research.
Teaching Experience
Courses Taught:
• Campaigns and Elections
• Experiments in Political Science
• Identity in Politics
• Introduction to American Government
• Political Polarization
• Political Psychology
• Polls, Public Opinion, and Elections
• Public Opinion
• Research Design for Political Science
• Southern Politics
• State and Local Politics
• Survey Research Methodology
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Survey Workshops Taught:
• Basics of Survey Research
• Cognitive Interviewing and Survey Pretesting
• Focus Groups
• Questionnaire and Scale Development
• Survey Sampling
• Using Qualtrics for Surveys and Experiments
• Web-Based Survey Research
Grants
• Research Fellowship, Duke-UNC American Politics Research Group, Summers 2005 and
2006, $5,000 each
• University of Cincinnati Taft Fund, January 2012, $2,000
Professional Service and Memberships
• Panel Chair and discussant at multiple meetings of APSA, MPSA, and Citadel Symposium on
Southern Politics
• Reviewer: American Journal of Political Science, American Politics Research, International
Journal of Press/Politics, Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, National Science
Foundation Political Science Program, Oxford University Press, Palgrave MacMillan USA
Press, Political Behavior, Psychology & Neuroscience, Publius, Public Opinion Quarterly,
Sage Publications, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, The Social Science Journal
• Counselor, Chuck Stone Diversity in Media Workshop, UNC Chapel Hill School of Journalism
and Mass Communication, July 2009
• Member: American Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association,
Southern Political Science Association, International Society of Political Psychology,
American Association for Public Opinion Research
University of Kansas Service
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Member, Political Science Undergraduate Committee, 2013-2014
Member, Political Science Advisory Committee, 2014-2015
Member, Social Sciences General Research Fund Review Committee, 2014-present
Member, First Year Experience Program, First Year Seminar Approval Committee, 2014
Member, Truman Scholar Selection Committee, 2014
Chair, Political Science American Comprehensive Exam Committee, Spring 2014
Member, Navigating Digital Futures Media Steering Committee, 2015-2016
Member, Law & Society Search Committee, SPAA, Fall 2015
Member of Dissertation Committee: Chelsie Bright, Johnathan Kupka, Jerry Moon
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Member, Judicial Politics Search Committee, 2011
Member, Political Science Headship Search Committee, 2012
Department Representative, Arts and Sciences Faculty Senate, 2012-present
Member, Research Support Committee, Arts and Sciences Senate, 2012-present
Department Adviser, Non-Senior Political Science majors (roughly 150 students)
Page Manager, Political Science Department Facebook Page
Member of Dissertation Committee: Jungmin Hong, Jessica Johnson-Pool, Dmitriy Poznyak
MA Adviser: Jake Moore, Dani Sandu
Independent Study Adviser for 6 undergraduates as of Fall 2012
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