Elizabeth Suhay, PhD

Welcome!

 

I specialize in the study of U.S. public opinion and political psychology, especially the political causes and consequences of Americans' beliefs about socioeconomic inequality and scientific topics. 

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My first book—Debating the American Dream: How Explanations for Inequality Polarize Politics—was released in October 2025 by Russell Sage.

 

​I have also co-edited three edited volumes: The Politics of Truth in Polarized America (2021, Oxford), with David Barker, The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Persuasion (2020), with Bernard Grofman and Alex Trechsel, and "The Politics of Science" (2015, The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science), with James Druckman.

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My article publications have appeared in many highly regarded peer-reviewed journals, including The American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, and The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, among other journals.

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Ongoing and completed research projects have been sponsored by the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation, the Rita Allen Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences.

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I currently serve as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Political Psychology (with Mark Brandt) and Editor of the Cambridge University Press Elements in Political Psychology series. At American University, I am a Sine Civic Life Faculty Fellow and Vice Director of the Science & Policy certificate program. I regularly teach Politics in the U.S. (BA), Political Opinion in the U.S. (BA), Research Design (PhD), & Proseminar in American Politics (PhD).

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