Adam J. Berinsky

Department of Political Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Ave., E53-459

Cambridge, MA 02139

Tel: (617) 253-8190 Fax: (617) 258-6164

Webpage: http://web.mit.edu/berinsky/www/

September 2009

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Associate Professor of Political Science (with tenure), July 2007-

Associate Professor of Political Science (without tenure), July 2004- June 2007

Assistant Professor of Political Science, July 2003 to June 2004

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Assistant Professor of Politics, February 2000 to June 2003

Instructor of Politics, July 1999-January 2000

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Visiting Scholar, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, May 2005-May 2006

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

National Elections Study Fellow, September- 2002 - April 2003

EDUCATION

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Ph.D. Department of Political Science, April 2000

Dissertation Title: The Search for the Voice of the People: Public Opinion Polling and Political Representation in America (Nancy Burns and Donald Kinder, co-chairs).

Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

BA with High Honors in Government, May 1992, Phi Beta Kappa

HONORS AND AWARDS

Emerging Scholar Award, 2007, Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section of the American Political Science Association. Presented to the top scholar in the field within ten years of his or her doctorate.

Midwest Political Science Association Emerging Scholar Award, 2006. Awarded for the best paper, regardless of field of topic, authored by a scholar or scholars who has or have received their terminal degree(s) no sooner than six years prior to the year of the meeting at which the paper was presented.

William G. Bowen University Preceptorship, Princeton University, 2003-2006. Competitive position awarded to promising junior faculty that provides an extra semester of pre-tenure leave and a three-year research fund. (Declined).

Society for Political Methodology Poster Award, 1998 (Awarded for the best methodology poster presented by a graduate student or faculty member at a political science conference 1997-1998)

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Fellow, 2009-2010

American National Election Study, 2006 Pilot Study Competition Winner for “Self-Monitoring and Political Attitudes” 2006 (with Howard Lavine)

National Science Foundation, Political Science Program Grant SES-0550431, “Collaborative Research: The American Mass Public in the 1930s and 1940s.” 2006-2008 (with Eric Schickler). Berinsky portion, $153,358. Total grant $313,153.

National Science Foundation: Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences, “Elites, Events, and Public Support for War.” 2005.

National Science Foundation: Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences, “Assuming the Costs of War: The Effects of Knowledge of Casualty Rates on Support for Military Intervention.” 2004.

School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Research Fund Grant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003-4, 2004-2005

National Science Foundation: Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences, Winner Special Competition for “The Indirect Effects of Discredited Stereotypes: Social and Political Traits in Judgments of Jewish Leaders” 2003 (with Tali Mendelberg)

Dean's Faculty Development Fund Grant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003, 2005, 2006.

Center for International Studies Junior Faculty Fellowship, Princeton University, 2003-2004. Competitive grant providing for a one-course reduction in teaching load (Declined).

Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Princeton University, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003.

Princeton University 250th Anniversary Fund Award for Course Development, 2001-2002

Gerald Ford Dissertation Fellowship, 1998-1999

Horace A. Rackham Predoctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1998-1999

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 1994-1997

PUBLICATIONS

Books

In Time of War: Understanding Public Opinion, From World War II to Iraq. 2009. University of Chicago Press.

Silent Voices: Opinion Polls and Political Representation in America. 2004, Princeton University Press (paperback edition, 2006).

Articles (Refereed)

“Assuming the Costs of War: Events, Elites, and American Public Support for Military Conflict.” Journal of Politics. 2007. 69(4): 975-997.

“An Estimate of Risk Aversion in the U.S. Electorate.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science. 2007. 2(2): 139-154. (with Jeffrey Lewis).

“Public Opinion Research, Presidential Rhetoric, and Support for the Iraq War.” Public Opinion Quarterly. 2007. 71(1): 126-141 (with James Druckman).

“Public Opinion in the 1930s and 1940s: The Analysis of Quota Controlled Sample Survey Data.” Public Opinion Quarterly. 2006. 70(4): 530-564.

“Making Sense of Issues through Media Frames: Understanding the Kosovo Crisis.” Journal of Politics. 2006. 68(3): 640-656. (with Donald Kinder).

“Don’t Knows” and Public Opinion Towards Economic Reform: Evidence from Russia.” Communist and Post-Communist Studies. 2006. 39 (1): 73-99. (with Joshua Tucker).

“The Indirect Effects of Discredited Stereotypes in Judgments of Jewish Leaders.” American Journal of Political Science. 2005. 49(4): 845-864. (with Tali Mendelberg).

“The Perverse Consequences of Electoral Reform in the United States.” American Politics Research. 2005. 33: 471-491

“Can We Talk? Self-Presentation and the Survey Response.” Political Psychology. 2004: 25(4):643-659

“Transitional Winners and Losers: Attitudes towards EU Membership in Post-Communist Countries.” American Journal of Political Science. 2002. 46(3):557-571 (with Alexander Pacek and Joshua Tucker).

“Political Context and the Survey Response: The Dynamics of Racial Policy Opinion.” Journal of Politics. 2002. 64(2):567-584.

“Silent Voices: Social Welfare Policy Opinions and Political Equality in America.” American Journal of Political Science. 2002. 46(2):276-287.

“Who Votes by Mail? A Dynamic Model of the Individual-Level Consequences of Vote-By-Mail Systems” Public Opinion Quarterly. 2001. 65(2):178-197 (with Nancy Burns and Michael Traugott).

“The Two Faces of Public Opinion.” American Journal of Political Science. 1999. 43(4):1209-1230.

Book Chapters

“Representative Sampling and Survey Non-Response.” In Larry Jacobs and Robert. Shapiro (ed.). 2009. Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media. New York: Oxford University Press.

“Public Opinion and the Iraq War.” In Barbara Norrander and Clyde Wilcox (ed.). 2009. Understanding Public Opinion, Third Edition. Washington: CQ Press.

“Survey Non-Response.” In Wolfgang Donsbach and Michael W. Traugott (ed.) 2008. Handbook of Public Opinion Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

“The 2000 New Jersey Twelfth Congressional District Race.” in David Magleby. (ed.) 2002. The Other Campaign: Soft Money and Issue Advocacy in the 2000 Congressional Elections. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield (with the assistance of Susan Lederman).

Non-Refereed Publications

Review of The Illusion of Public Opinion: Fact and Artifact in American Public Opinion Polls, George F. Bishop. Perspectives on Politics. 2005. 3 (3): 628-630

Review of Deliberation Day, Bruce Ackerman and James S. Fishkin. Political Science Quarterly. 2005.120 (1): 138.

Review of Public Opinion and Democratic Accountability: How Citizens Learn about Politics, by Vincent Hutchings. Journal of Politics. 2005. 67: 304-306.

Review of Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology, by ed. David O. Sears, Leonie Huddy, and Robert Jervis. Political Psychology. 2004. 25:969-983. (with Martha Crenshaw and Tali Mendelberg).

“Making Sense of Issues through Frames.” The Political Psychologist. 1999. 4:2-6. (with Donald R. Kinder).

WORK IN PROGRESS

Education and Political Participation: Uncovering the Causal Link (with Gabriel Lenz), Under review.

The Role of Leaders in Constructing Threat

The Personal Costs of War

Revisiting Public Opinion in the 1930s and 1940s (with Ellie Powell, Eric Schickler, and Ian Yohai)

Implicit Racial Cues (with Vincent Hutchings, Tali Mendelberg, and Nicholas Valentino)

COURSES TAUGHT

Graduate: Public Opinion (Fall 2000, Spring 2004, Spring 2007, Spring 2008), Research Design (Fall 2001), Survey Research (Fall 2004; Spring 2009), American Politics Field Seminar (Fall 2006, Fall 2007)

Undergraduate: Applied Statistical Methods in Political Science Research (Spring 2002), .Introduction to American Politics (Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Fall 2001, Spring 2004), Scope and Methods of Political Science Research (Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2004, Fall 2006, Fall 2007), Public Opinion (Spring 2007; Spring 2009), Public Opinion and Foreign Policy (Spring 2008)

ICPSR Summer Program in Political Methodology: Advanced Maximum Likelihood Estimation (Summer 2003, Summer 2004).

FIELDS OF INTEREST

American Politics (specialties in: public opinion, mass media and political communication, electoral behavior, representation, political participation and electoral laws) Methodology (specialties in statistical analysis, experimental methods, and research design).

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Associate PI, Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences, 2009-

National Science Foundation Political Science Advisory Panel, 2009.

Book Review Editor, Public Opinion Quarterly. 2008-2012

Best Paper Award Committee Chair, Political Psychology Section APSA, 2009

Division Chair, Political Psychology for the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science

Association.

Division Chair, Voting Behavior for the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science

Association.

Editor, The Political Methodologist. Newsletter of the Political Methodology Section, American Political Science Association. 2003-2007

Best Paper Award Committee, Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section APSA, 2006

Society for Political Methodology Poster Award Selection Committee. 1999, 2003

Reviewer for: American Journal of Political Science, American Politics Research, American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, Chicago University Press, Comparative Political Studies, Electoral Studies, Field Methods, International Interactions, Israel Science Foundation, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Politics, McGraw-Hill, National Science Foundation, Perspectives on Politics, Political Analysis, Political Psychology, Political Research Quarterly, Political Behavior, Political Studies, Polity, Princeton University Press, Public Opinion Quarterly, Sage Publications, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Social Science Quarterly, Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences, University of Michigan Press, World Politics, U.S. Election Assistance Commission.

Discussant: 1998, 2000, 2002 meetings of the American Political Science Association. 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association

Invited Presentations: Columbia University (March 2002; February 2008), Dartmouth College (April 2005), Emory University (February 2008), George Washington University (May 2008); April 2009), Georgetown University (November 2006), Harvard University (May 2001), New York University (February 2001; November 2002), Northwestern University (December 2002; October 2007), Ohio State University (October 2007), Oxford University (April 2005; January 2007), Princeton University (October 2007), SUNY-Binghamton (December 2006), University of California, Berkeley (May 2007; September 2008), University of Chicago (April 2003), University of Michigan (November 2003; March 2005; May 2006), University of Minnesota (September 2004), University of North Carolina (November 2001; March 2009), University of

Pennsylvania (January 2007), University of Washington (November 2001), Université Catholique de Louvain (January 2002), Washington University (May 2006), Wesleyan University (November 2000), Yale University (November 2000; January 2004).