Gadarian wins Maxwell School’s
Moynihan Award
Shana
Kushner Gadarian, assistant professor of political science, has won the 2015
Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award for Teaching and Research, which recognizes an
outstanding junior faculty member for excellence in teaching, research, and
service.
Gadarian’s
primary research interests are in American politics, political psychology, and
political communication. In particular,
she is interested in how citizens learn and form attitudes when politics is
threatening—whether threats come from terrorism, infectious disease outbreaks,
or media and elite rhetoric. Her work is
developed in a forthcoming co-authored book, Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World,
which explores the effects on Americans of anxiety over policy issues like
immigration, public health, terrorism, and climate change.
Gadarian is
also at work on a collaborative project with Rene Almeling from Yale on how
genetic risk information shapes Americans’ beliefs and attitudes about disease,
family, and responsibility. Her research
has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, Princeton Policy Research Institute for the Region, and the Bobst
Center for Peace and Justice. Her work
has been published in the American
Journal of Political Science, Journal
of Politics, Political Psychology, Political Communication, Perspectives on
Politics, and others. Gadarian
received a PhD in politics from Princeton University in 2008 and was a Robert
Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at UC-Berkeley.
The Moynihan Award was endowed by the late
Senator and former Maxwell faculty member in 1986, to be presented annually to
an outstanding untenured faculty member. 05/20/15