June 13, 2014 Department of Political Science George Washington University 2115 G Street NW, Suite 440 Washington DC 20052 jsides@gwu.edu http://home.gwu.edu/~jsides ph 202 994 3538 JOHN M. SIDES APPOINTMENTS Associate Professor of Political Science. George Washington University. 2011-present. Assistant Professor of Political Science. George Washington University. 2005-2011. Assistant Professor of Government. University of Texas at Austin. 2003-2005. EDUCATION Ph.D. in Political Science. University of California, Berkeley. 2003. M.A. in Political Science. University of California, Berkeley. 1997. B.A. with Highest Distinction and Highest Honors in Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 1996. BOOKS Sides, John, and Lynn Vavreck. 2013. The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Election. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Sides, John, Daron Shaw, Matt Grossmann, and Keena Lipsitz. 2012 (updated edition). Campaigns and Elections: Rules, Reality, Strategy, Choice. New York: W.W. Norton. REFEREED ARTICLES Lawrence, Eric, and John Sides. 2014. The Consequences of Innumeracy. Research and Politics, forthcoming. Sides, John, and Kimberly Gross. 2013. Stereotypes of Muslims and Support for the War on Terror. Journal of Politics 75(3): 583-598.. Aday, Sean, Henry Farrell, Deen Freelon, Marc Lynch, John Sides, and Michael Dewar. 2013. Watching from Afar: Media Consumptions Patterns Around the Arab Spring. American Behavioral Scientist 57(7): 899-919. Nyhan, Brendan, Eric McGhee, John Sides, Seth Masket, and Steven Greene. 2012. One Vote Out of Step? The Effects of Salience Roll Call Votes in the 2010 Election. American Politics Research 40(5): 844-879. McGhee, Eric, and John Sides. 2011. What Drives Partisan Turnout? Political Behavior 33(2): 313-334. Sides, John, Keena Lipsitz, and Matthew Grossmann. 2010. Do Voters Perceive Negative Campaigns as Informative Campaigns? American Politics
2 Research 38(3): 502-530. Lawrence, Eric, John Sides, and Henry Farrell. 2010. Self-Segregation or Deliberation? Blog Readership, Participation, and Polarization in American Politics. Perspectives on Politics 8(1): 141-157. Sides, John, Eric Schickler, and Jack Citrin. 2008. If Everyone Had Voted, Would Bubba and Dubya Have Won? Presidential Studies Quarterly, 38(3): 521-39. With Jack Citrin and Eric Schickler. Sides, John, and Andrew Karch. 2008. Messages that Mobilize? Issue Publics and Issue Appeals in Campaign Advertising. Journal of Politics 70(2): 1-12. Citrin, Jack, and John Sides. 2008. Immigration and the Imagined Community in Europe and the United States. Political Studies 56(1): 33-56. Elkins, Zachary, and John Sides. 2007. Can Institutions Create Unity in Multiethnic Societies? American Political Science Review 101(4): 693-708. Sides, John. 2007. The Consequences of Campaign Agendas. American Politics Research 35(4): 465-488. Sides, John, and Jack Citrin. 2007. European Opinion about Immigration: The Role of Identities, Interests, and Information. British Journal of Political Science 37(3): 477-504. Sides, John. 2006. The Origins of Campaign Agendas. British Journal of Political Science 36(3): 407-436. Lipsitz, Keena, Christine Trost, Matthew Grossmann, and John Sides. 2005. What Voters Want from Political Campaign Communication. Political Communication 22(3): 337-354. Citrin, Jack, Eric Schickler, and John Sides. 2003. What If Everyone Voted? Simulating the Impact of Increased Turnout in Senate Elections. American Journal of Political Science 47(1): 75-90. Schickler, Eric, Eric McGhee, and John Sides. 2003. Remaking the House and Senate: Personal Power, Ideology, and the 1970s Reforms. Legislative Studies Quarterly 28(3): 297-333. Schickler, Eric, and John Sides. 2000. Intergenerational Warfare: The Senate Decentralizes Appropriations. Legislative Studies Quarterly 25: 551-575. BOOK CHAPTERS Sides, John, Eric Schickler, and Jack Citrin. 2011. Who Governs if Everyone Votes? In Paul M. Sniderman and Benjamin Highton (eds.), Facing the Challenge of Democracy: Explorations in the Analysis of Public Opinion and Political Participation. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 292-311. Sides, John and Jake Haselswerdt. 2011. Campaigns and Elections. In Adam Berinsky (ed.), New Directions in Public Opinion. New York: Routledge. pp. 241-57. Sides, John. 2006. Electoral Politics. In Gillian Peele, Christopher J. Bailey, Bruce E. Cain, and B. Guy Peters (eds.), Developments in American Politics 5. Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan. Citrin, Jack, and John Sides. 2006. European Immigration in the People s Court. In Craig A. Parsons and Timothy M. Smeeding (eds.), Immigration and the
3 Transformation of Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Brady, Henry E., Richard Johnston, and John Sides. 2006. The Study of Campaigns. In Henry Brady and Richard Johnston (eds.), Capturing Campaign Effects. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Citrin, Jack, and John Sides. 2004. More than Nationals: How Identity Choice Matters in the New Europe. In Richard Hermann, Thomas Risse, and Marilynn Brewer (eds.), Transnational Identities: Becoming European in the EU. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. Citrin, Jack, and John Sides. 2004. Can There Be Europe Without Europeans? Problems of Identity in a Multinational Community. In Margaret G. Hermann (ed.), Advances in Political Psychology (vol. 1). New York: Pergamon Press. Citrin, Jack, Jonathan Cohen, and John Sides. 2002. The Causes and Consequences of Crossover Voting in the 1998 California Election. In Bruce Cain and Elisabeth Gerber (eds.), Voting at the Political Faultline: California s Experiment with the Blanket Primary. Berkeley: University of California Press. Kousser, Thad, and John Sides. 2002. Addendum: Crossover Behavior in the March 2000 Primary. In Bruce Cain and Elisabeth Gerber (eds.), Voting at the Political Faultline: California s Experiment with the Blanket Primary. Berkeley: University of California Press. OTHER PUBLICATIONS Sides, John. 2014. Review of The Victory Lab (by Sasha Issenberg). Public Opinion Quarterly, forthcoming. Sides, John. 2014. Four Suggestions for Making Election Forecasts Better, and Better Known. PS: Political Science and Politics 47(2): 339-341. Aday, Sean, Henry Farrell, Marc Lynch, John Sides, and Deen Freelon. 2012. Blogs and Bullets II: New Media and Conflict After the Arab Spring. Report for the United States Institute of Peace. Sides, John. 2011. The Political Scientist as a Blogger. PS: Political Scientist and Politics 44(2): 267-271. Nyhan, Brendan and John Sides. 2011. How Political Science Can Help Journalism (and Still Let Journalists Be Journalists). The Forum 9(1), Article 2. Farrell, Henry and John Sides. 2010. Building a Political Science Public Sphere with Blogs. The Forum: 8(3), Article 10. Aday, Sean, Henry Farrell, Marc Lynch, John Sides, John Kelly, and Ethan Zuckerman. 2010. Blogs and Bullets: New Media in Contentious Politics. Report for the United States Institute of Peace. Sides, John. 2009. Review of Eurostars and Eurocities (by Adrian Favell). West European Politics 32(3): 693-94. Sides, John. 2009. Review of The Persuadable Voter (by D. Sunshine Hillygus and Todd Shields). Public Opinion Quarterly 73(1): 224-26. Sides, John. 2006. Review of New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen (by Philip Howard). Political Science Quarterly 121 (3): 529-30.
4 OTHER WRITING Co-founder and contributor. The Monkey Cage. 2007-present. Named 2010 Blog of the Year by The Week and a 2012 Best Blog by Time. Acquired by the Washington Post in September 2013. 17.1 million pageviews between January 1, 2008, and May 31, 2014. Contributor. Wonkblog at the Washington Post. 2012-2013. Contributor. Model Politics blog at YouGov. 2011-2012. Contributor. 538 blog at the New York Times. 2011-2012. Sides, John, and Lynn Vavreck 2014. Inconclusive Results. Pacific Standard, January/February. Sides, John, and Lynn Vavreck. 2013. Will the 2014 Election Solve Anything? CNN, October 7. Sides, John, and Lynn Vavreck. 2013. Republicans Haven t Lost Women. Bloomberg View, November 7. Sides, John, and Lynn Vavreck. 2013. Scholarship in Public. Inside Higher Ed, August 29. Mettler, Suzanne, and John Sides. 2012. We Are the 96 Percent. New York Times, September 24. Sides, John. 2012. Do Presidential Debates Really Matter? Washington Monthly, September/October. Putnam, Josh, and John Sides. 2012. Republican Rules Are Not to Blame for Primary War. Bloomberg View, March 22. Sides, John. 2012. Will Obamacare Matter to U.S. Voters? Al Jazeera, March 5. McGhee, Eric, Brendan Nyhan, and John Sides. 2010. Midterm Postmortem. Boston Review, November 11. Masket, Seth, and John Sides. 2010. Dems Will Lose Seats But Not Why You Think. New York Daily News (28 May). Sides, John. 2010. On Haiti, America s Short Attention Span Strikes Again. Salon. 30 April. Binder, Sarah, Andrew Gelman, and John Sides. 2010. Political and Institutional Hurdles Prevent Serious Reform Boston Review (March/April). Sides, John. 2010. On Spending, Conservatives Are Quite Conflicted. Salon. 24 February. Gelman, Andrew, and John Sides. 2009. Stories and Stats: The Truth about Obama s Victory Wasn t in the Papers. Boston Review (September/October). Gelman, Andrew, and John Sides. 2009. Why an Abortion Consensus Is Unlikely: The Strange Dynamics of this Hot-Button Issue New York Daily News (22 May). Sides, John and Eric Lawrence. 2008. Who Listens to Bloggingheads? Los Angeles Times. 13 July 2008. Sides, John. 2008. Patching Up the Parties. Los Angeles Times. 25 May 2008.
5 GRANTS & AWARDS INVITED PRESENTATIONS George Washington University Facilitating Fund. $10,000. 2014. National Science Foundation (SES-1155226) for Groupcentrism in American Public Opinion. $76,160. 2012-2013. Bender Teaching Award. George Washington University. 2010. United States Institute of Peace for New Media and Contentious Politics (with Sean Aday, Henry Farrell, and Marc Lynch). $225,000. 2009-2011. Columbian College Facilitating Fund. $7,581. 2009. Professor of the Year. Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. 2008. Honorable Mention for Best Article. APSA Comparative Democratization Section (for Can Institutions Build Unity in Multi-ethnic States? ). 2007. George Washington University Facilitating Fund. $6,500. 2007. Policy Research Scholar. George Washington Institute of Public Policy. 2006-2007 and 2011-2012. University of Texas Summer Research Grant. $10,000. 2004. Institute of Governmental Studies Research Grant, University of California, Berkeley. $7,000. 2002-2003. Continuing Student Fellowship. University of California, Berkeley. 2001-2002. Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award. University of California, Berkeley. 2000. Peter H. Odegard Award. Department of Political Science. University of California, Berkeley. 1999. Regents Fellowship and Tuition Scholarship. University of California, Berkeley. 1996-1998. Phi Beta Kappa. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1995. John Motley Morehead Scholarship. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1992-1996. Brigham Young University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Washington University (The American Panel Study Workshop), University of California-San Diego, Binghamton University, Vanderbilt University (Conference on Political Representation: Fifty Years After Miller & Stokes ), Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, University of Minnesota, Iowa State University (Conference on Social Science, Presidential Campaigns and Political Reporting ), Seton Hall University, Wesleyan University (Conference on Campaign Finance, Political Communication, and the 2012 Elections ), University of Denver, Fordham University, Princeton University, Washington University, University of Massachusetts, UNC-Chapel Hill, Russell Sage Foundation, University of Maryland, Vanderbilt University, Georgetown University, McGill University, Princeton University (Conference on Comparative Approaches to Immigration and Ethnic Diversity), IUPUI (Bulen Symposium on American Politics), University of Virginia, Temple University, George Washington University (School of Media and Public Affairs), University of California, Berkeley, Georgetown University (Workshop for the CID Survey Project), Columbia University, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of
6 Texas at Austin, Ohio State University, Yale University, Princeton University, Northwestern University, Harvard University. TEACHING ADVISING SERVICE TO DISCIPLINE Campaigns and Elections, Introduction to American Politics, Media and Politics, Political Behavior (Ph.D. level), Political Psychology, Public Opinion, Surveys and Experiments (Ph.D. level). George Washington University: Aaron Dusso, Laura Evans (chair), Robert Griffin (chair), Alyx Mark. University of Texas at Austin: Brian Arbour, Danny Hayes, Seth McKee, Kanan Sawyer, Mathieu Turgeon, Michael Unger. Reviewer for the American Behavioral Scientist, American Economic Review, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, American Politics Research, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Congress and the Presidency, Democratization, Election Law Journal, Electoral Studies, Ethics and International Affairs, European Journal of Political Research, European Societies, European Political Science Review, European Sociological Review, European Union Politics, International Journal of Press and Politics, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, International Migration Review, International Studies Perspectives, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Elections, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Journal of International Migration and Integration, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Political Marketing, Journal of Politics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, New Media and Society, Party Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Political Analysis, Political Behavior, Political Communication, Political Psychology, Political Research Quarterly, Political Science Research and Methods, Political Studies, Politics and Gender, Politics, Groups, and Identities, Politics and Religion, Polity, Public Choice, Public Opinion Quarterly, Publius, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Scandinavian Political Studies, Social Problems, Social Science Quarterly, Social Science Research, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, West European Politics, World Politics, Cambridge University Press, Cengage, University of Chicago Press, Oxford University Press, Yale University Press, W.W. Norton, Public Policy Institute of California, Time-Sharing Experiments in the Social Science, and the National Science Foundation. Associate Editor, Research and Politics, 2013-present. American Political Science Association Presidential Task Force on Public Engagement. 2013-present. Advisory Board. The American Panel Study. 2011-present. Council. National Capital Area Political Science Association. 2011-present. (President, 2014-2015). Steering Committee. 2010-2014 CCES Panel Study. 2011-2014. Editorial Board. American Politics Research. 2011-present. Editorial Board. Political Communication. 2013-present. Executive Council. Section on Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior. American Political Science Association. 2011-present. Co-Principal Investigator. 2012 Cooperative Campaign Analysis Project. 2011-
7 2012. American Political Science Association Presidential Task Force on the Public Understanding of Political Science. 2011. Best Dissertation Award Committee. International Society for Political Psychology. 2011. Philip E. Converse Book Award Committee. Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior Section of the American Political Science Association. 2011. Design Committee for the Cooperative Congressional Election Studies. 2006-2007. SERVICE TO DEPARTMENT SERVICE TO UNIVERSITY Graduate admissions committee. 2012. American politics examination committee. 2005-2011. American politics faculty search committee. 2003-2004, 2005-2008, 2011-2012. Graduate financial aid committee. 2004. Student Commencement Speaker Selection Committee. George Washington University. 2012. Faculty Speaker. Columbian College of Arts and Science Graduation. George Washington University, 2011. Bender Teaching Award Committee. George Washington University. 2011.