Expertise Summary

Political expert on public opinion, political behavior, and polling methods and analysis.

Additional Information

• Research Director, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences/Los Angeles Times Poll
• Co-investigator (with Janelle Wong, Taeku Lee and Karthick Ramakrishnan), National Asian American Survey (2008)
• Co-chair (with Ed Keller), APSA annual meeting program (2008)
• Editor, “New Race Politics: Understanding Minority and Immigrant Politics” (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
• Editorial Board of Journal of Politics, Polity, and the Ralph Bunche Journal of Public Affairs, American Political Science Review (2001 – 2007)
• Co-author (with Richard J. Niemi), “Civic Education: What Makes Students Learn” (Yale University Press, 1998)
• Fulbright Senior Scholar (1998)
• Co-author (with Norman H. Nie and Kenneth Stehlik-Barry), “Education and Democratic Citizenship in America” (University of Chicago Press, 1996)
• Recipient, Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award from the American Political Science Association