Shana Kushner Gadarian
Professor and Chair, Political Science
Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute
Degree
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2008
Specialties
American politics, political psychology, political communication, public opinion, experimental methods
Personal Website
http://sgadaria.expressions.syr.edu/
Courses
PSC 121:
American National Government
PSC 315:
Politics and Media
MAX 201:
Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
PSC 691:
Logic of Political Inquiry
PSC 700:
Surveys and Experiments
Publications
Book
Albertson, Bethany and Shana
Kushner Gadarian. 2015. Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a
Threatening World. New York: Cambridge University Press. -Awarded 2016 APSA Robert E. Lane Award for best book
in political psychology
Selected articles
Makkonen, Anna, Atte Oksanen, Shana Kushner Gadarian,
Francisco Herreros, Marte Slagsvold Winsvold, Øyvind Bugge Solheim, Bernard
Enjolras, Kari Steen-Johnsen. 2020. Fear-Triggering Effects of Terrorism Threats:
Cross-country Comparison in a Terrorism News Scenario Experiment. Personality
and Individual Differences. Vol. 161.
Enjolras, Bernard, Kari Steen-Johnsen,
Francisco Herreros, Øyvind Bugge Solheim, Marte Slagsvold Winsvold, Shana
Kushner Gadarian, and Atte Oksanen. 2019. "Does Trust Prevent Fear in the
Aftermath of Terrorist Attacks?" Perspectives on Terrorism 13,
no. 4: 39-55.
Crowder-Meyer,
Melody, Shana Kushner Gadarian, Jessica Trounstine. 2019. Voting Can Be Hard:
Information Can Help. Urban Affairs Review. doi.org/10.1177/1078087419831074
Crowder-Meyer, Melody, Shana
Kushner Gadarian, and Jessica Trounstine. 2015. Electoral Institutions, Gender
Stereotypes, and Women’s Local Representation. Politics, Groups, and
Identities. 3(2): 318-334.
Almeling, Rene
and Shana Kushner Gadarian. 2014. Reacting to Genetic Risk: An Experimental
Survey of Life between Health and Disease. Journal of Health and
Social Behavior. 55(4): 482-503.
Gadarian, Shana Kushner.
2010. Foreign Policy at the Ballot Box: How Citizens Use Foreign Policy to
Judge and Choose Candidates. Journal of Politics. 72(4):
1046-1062.
Gadarian, Shana Kushner. 2010. The Politics of Threat: How Terrorism News
Shapes Foreign Policy Attitudes. Journal of Politics.
72(2):469-483.
Gershkoff, Amy and Shana A. Kushner. 2005. “The 9/11-Iraq
Connection: How the Bush Administration’s Rhetoric in the Iraq Conflict Shifted
Public Opinion.” Perspectives on Politics. 3(3).
Research Grants and Awards
AWARDS
2019 Neal Tate Award for best paper in judicial politics at
the 2018 Southern Political Science Association Annual meeting (with
Logan Strother)
2018 Best Paper Award in American Politics at the 2017 Midwest
Political Science Association Meeting for “Voting is Hard:
Information Can Help” (with Melody Crowder-Meyer and Jessica Trounstine)
2017 Best Paper Award, Urban and Local Politics Section at
APSA 2016 meeting, for “A Different Kind of Disadvantage: Candidate
Race, Electoral Institutions, and Voter Choice” (with Jessica Trounstine, Melody Crowder-Meyer,
Kau Vue)
Co-winner, Robert E. Lane Award for best book in political
psychology, APSA 2016
Co-winner, Sophonisba Breckenridge Award, awarded for the best
paper on gender and politics, at the 2015 MPSA Meeting, for “Complex
Interactions: Candidate Race, Sex, Electoral Institutions, and Voter Choice”
Moynihan Prize for outstanding
non-tenured member of the Maxwell School faculty, 2015
Co-winner, Gosnell Prize for
Political Methodology, 2014, awarded for the best work in political methodology
presented at any political science conference during the preceding year for
“Structural Topic Models for
Open Ended Responses with Applications to Surveys and Experiments”
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
National Science Foundation
RAPID for “Public Responses to Novel Coronavirus” ($53,000 with Sara Wallace
Goodman and Tom Pepinsky), 2020
Cornell Center for Social Sciences COVID Rapid Grant for “Public Responses to Novel Coronavirus” ($22,500
with Sara Wallace Goodman and Tom Pepinsky), 2020
Syracuse Program for
Collaboration and Conflict Mini-grant for “Public Responses to
Novel Coronavirus”
($2,000 with Sara Wallace Goodman and Tom Pepinsky), 2020
New America Foundation,
Electoral Reform Research Group for “Ranked Choice Voting and Voter Choices” ($19,000
with Melody Crowder-Meyer and Jessica Trounstine), 2020
Syracuse Collaboration for
Unprecedented Success and Excellent (CUSE) Grant for “Measuring Emotion about
Immigration in the United States” ($28,000 with Lu Xiao), 2020
Norwegian Research Council
Grant for “Disruption, Social Capital and Resilience: A Longitudinal and Comparative Approach” (with Kari Steen-Johnson, Atte
Oksanen, Francisco Herreros, Bernard Enroljas, Øyvind Bugge Solheim), 2015-2018
Maxwell Dean’s Office, Summer
Project Grant, 2015
Campbell Institute Mini-grants
(2012, 2014)
Appleby-Mosher Faculty Grant
(2011-2014, 2016)
National Science Foundation: Time-Sharing
Experiments for the Social Sciences, (with Bethany Albertson) (2011)
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
Pilot Project Grant (with Rene Almeling) (2010)
National Science Foundation:
Time Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences and Department of
Homeland Security Grant, (2008 Winner, Special Competition)
National Science Foundation:
Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (with Bethany Albertson)
Institute for Ethnic Studies,
University of Washington, Grant (with Bethany Albertson)
Princeton Policy Research
Institute for the Region, Grant
Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for
Peace and Justice, Grant
SU Affiliations
Campbell Public Affairs Institute