Department of Government Department of Political Science University of Alabama at Birmingham Binghamton University Heritage Hall 408, 1401 University Blvd. P.O. Box 6000 Birmingham, AL 35233-1152 Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 Email: jmcnulty@uab.edu Email: jmcnulty@binghamton.edu Voice: (205) 934-9019; Fax (205) 975-5712 Website: http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~jmcnulty/ EXPERIENCE University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Government Assistant Professor, 2014-present Binghamton University (State University of New York), Department of Political Science Visiting Scholar, Department of Political Science, 2013-present Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, 2005-2013 State University of New York at Cortland, Department of Political Science Lecturer, 2013-2014 EDUCATION Ph.D, University of California at Berkeley, Political Science, 2005 Dissertation: Sensitivities of Voter Turnout: Field Experiments Exploring a Variety of Treatments Committee: Henry E. Brady (chair), Bruce E. Cain, J. Merrill Shanks, Raymond E. Wolfinger, Susan F. Rasky (Journalism) Fields: American Politics, Political Behavior, and Methodology M.A., University of California at Berkeley, Political Science, 1999. Thesis: Republican Rise in the Rebel South Advisors/Committee: Jack Citrin, Nelson W. Polsby, Eric Schickler Other Graduate Education Yale University, August 2002 o Institution for Social & Policy Studies Summer Program: Experiments in the Social Sciences. University of Michigan, Summer 2001 o ICPSR Summer Training Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. B.S., University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, Economics, 1993 Triple Concentrations: Marketing Statistics Political Science 1
PUBLICATIONS Triumph of the Carpetbaggers. Pages 130-134 in Atlas of 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, edited by Stanley D. Brunn, Gerald R. Webster, Richard L. Morrill, Fred M. Shelley, Stephen J. Lavin, and J. Clark Archer. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011. Turning Out to Vote: The Costs of Finding and Getting to the Polling Place, with Henry E. Brady. American Political Science Review. Volume 105, Number 1 (February 2011), p. 115-134. Driving Saints to Sin: How Increasing the Difficulty of Voting Dissuades Even the Most Motivated Voters, with Conor M. Dowling and Margaret H. Ariotti. Political Analysis, vol. 17, issue 4 (Autumn 2009), p. 435-455. Observing the Counterfactual?: The Search for Political Experiments in Nature, with Gregory Robinson and Jonathan S. Krasno. Political Analysis, vol. 17, issue 4 (Autumn 2009), p. 341-357. Co-Editor, with Gregory Robinson and Jonathan S. Krasno, Political Analysis, volume 17, issue 4: Natural Experiments in Political Science (Autumn 2009), p. 341-455. Phone-Based GOTV: What s on the line? Field Experiments with Varied Partisan Components, 2002-2003. The Science of Voter Mobilization. Special Editors Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber. The Annals of The American Academy of Political Science, vol. 601 (September 2005), p. 41-65. Punch Card Technology and the Racial Gap in Residual Votes, with Justin Buchler and Matthew Jarvis. Perspectives on Politics, Volume 2 (September 2004), p. 517-524. Counting All The Votes: The Performance of Voting Technology in the United States, with Henry E. Brady, Justin Buchler, and Matt Jarvis. Joint report from the Survey Research Center and the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, September 2001. Partisan Effects of Voter Turnout in Presidential Elections with Jack H. Nagel, American Politics Quarterly, Volume 28, (July 2000), p. 408-429. Partisan Effects of Voter Turnout in Senatorial and Gubernatorial Elections with Jack H. Nagel, American Political Science Review, Volume 90, Number 4 (December 1996), p. 780-793. MAJOR AWARDS NSF Research Grant, 2006 (with Henry E. Brady), $94,268, for a two-year term, funding research on the Costs of Voting to culminate in a scholarly text. Renewed 2007, extended 2008-2010. Pi Sigma Alpha Award, best paper presented at the 2005 meeting of the Western Political Science Association (with Henry E. Brady) Harold Foote Gosnell Prize, best paper presented in political methodology, 2004 (with Henry E. Brady). (From the APSA Political Methodology Section) 2
OTHER AWARDS Artinian Award, Southern Political Science Association, Winter 2010. Harpur College Dean s Workshop Award (with Jonathan Krasno and Gregory Robinson), funding a speaker series at Binghamton University, 2007-2008 academic year. Harpur College Dean s Research Semester Award, funding one semester s teaching sabbatical from Harpur College at Binghamton University for research, Fall 2007. Academic Progress Award II Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2003 Dean s Normative Time Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2002 Scholarship, ISPS Summer Program, Yale University, 2002 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California, Berkeley, 2001-2002 Department of Political Science Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1998-1999 Undergraduate Research Grant, University of Pennsylvania, 1992 SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS Inconvenience and Dereliction: How Driver's License Suspensions Illuminate Questions of Voter Turnout with Michael A. Allen, Laura M. Martin and Tansy Woan, presented at the 2013 annual meeting of the State Politics and Policy Conference (Chicago, IL). A Preliminary Assessment of Early Intervention with Regard to Autism Spectrum Disorders, with Michael Wong, presented at the 2012 annual meeting of the New York State Political Science Association (Staten Island, NY). Legally Mandated Inconvenience: Does Driver's License Suspension Reduce Voter Turnout? with Laura M. Martin and Tansy Woan, presented at the 2010 annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association (Atlanta, GA). The Distrust Contagion: The Effects of Nearby Scandals on School Budget Approval Votes, presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association (Vancouver, BC, Canada). Observing the Counterfactual: The Search for Political Experiments in Nature, with Gregory Robinson and Jonathan Krasno, presented at the 2008 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (Boston, MA). The Costs of Voting and Turnout Evidence from a Poll Consolidation, with Carrie B. Gerber and Conor M. Dowling, presented at the 2008 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (Boston, MA). 3
A Natural Experiment: The Costs of Voting in a School Board Election, with Conor M. Dowling and Margaret H. (Molly) Ariotti, presented at the 2008 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (Chicago, IL). The Costs of Voting Over Time: Disruption and Transportation Effects, with Henry E. Brady, presented at the 2007 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (Chicago, IL). The Costs of Voting and Turnout Evidence from a Poll Consolidation, with Carrie B. Gerber and Conor M. Dowling, presented at the 2007 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (Chicago, IL). A Natural Experiment: The Costs of Voting in a School Board Election, with Conor Dowling, presented at the 2007 annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association (Las Vegas, NV). The Costs of Voting: Evidence from a Natural Experiment, with Henry E. Brady, presented at the 2005 Fall Conference of the Association for Public Policy and Management (Washington, DC). Hang ups and Beeps: Random Assignment, Non-Random Assignment, and Selection Effects, presented at the 2005 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (Washington, DC). The Costs of Voting: Evidence from a Natural Experiment, with Henry E. Brady, presented at the 2005 annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association (Oakland, CA). Phone-based GOTV: What s on the line? Field experiments, 2002-2003, presented at the 2004 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (Chicago, IL). The Costs of Voting: Evidence from a Natural Experiment, with Henry E. Brady, presented at the 2004 annual meeting of the Society for Political Methodology (Palo Alto, CA). Get-Out-The-Vote Drives and Turnout: Alameda County, CA, 2002, presented at the 2003 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (Philadelphia, PA). Partisan Get-Out-The-Vote Drives and Turnout: San Francisco, 2002, presented at the 2003 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (Chicago, IL). "Counting All The Votes: The Performance of Voting Technology in the United States, with Henry E. Brady, Justin Buchler, and Matt Jarvis, presented at the 2002 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (Chicago, IL). WORKING PAPERS: Partisan Effects of Voter Turnout: Partisan Effects by Race and Region Institute of Governmental Studies working paper [http://repositories.cdlib.org/igs/wp2003-4; Tables and Figures at http://repositories.cdlib.org/igs/wp2003-4a] 4
Republican Rise in the Rebel South Institute of Governmental Studies working paper [http://repositories.cdlib.org/igs/wp2003-5] Hang ups and Beeps: Random Assignment, Non-Random Assignment, and Selection Effects. A Behavioralist Perspective on Candidate Positioning, with Jonathan S. Krasno & Julie VanDusky- Allen. The Distrust Contagion: The Effects of Nearby Scandals on School Budget Approval Votes, Inconvenience and Dereliction: How Driver's License Suspensions Illuminate Questions of Voter Turnout, with Michael A. Allen, Laura M. Martin, and Tansy Woan. A Preliminary Assessment of Early Intervention with Regard to Autism Spectrum Disorders, with Michael Wong TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Assistant Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham: Undergraduate Courses Research in Political Science Spring 2015, Fall 2014 Intro. to American Politics Spring 2015 U.S. Congress Fall 2014 Lecturer, SUNY Cortland Undergraduate Courses Intro. to American Government Fall 2013, Spring 2014 Intro. to Political Research Spring 2014 Assistant Professor, Binghamton University: Graduate Courses American Politics Core Spring 2010, Fall 2011 Political and Voting Behavior Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2010 Political Psychology Spring 2007 Undergraduate Courses Media in the Political Process Fall 2009, Spring 2012-13 Media and Politics Spring 2008, Spring 2011 Electoral Behavior Fall 2006, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2012-13 Political Psychology Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2008-12 Seminar on Voting Behavior Spring 2006, Fall 2008, Spring 2011, Fall 2012 Seminar on Political Behavior Fall 2005 Graduate Student Instructor, University of California at Berkeley: Undergraduate Courses Research Methods (Head GSI) Spring 2005, Spring 2003, Fall 2001, Fall 1999 American Politics Spring 2001, Fall 2000, Spring 2000 5
GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISEES DISSERTATION COMMITTEES: Ph.D. Dissertations 2010 M. Garrett Roth, Political Candidates as Dynamic Optimizers (co-chair, Economics) 2010 Hillary Gleason, The CIA to 1950 (outside member, History) 2008 Conor M. Dowling, The Cost of Running for Office: How Electoral Campaign Laws Structure Candidate Entry in U.S. Elections (committee member, Political Science) RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS AND OTHER ACADEMIC PROJECTS: Professor Susan Rasky, supervisor, 2005 o Consulted on survey and polling methodology for an upcoming study on Iranian-American public opinion and political attitudes in California. Jerry Lubenow, Director, Center on Politics at the Institute of Governmental Studies, supervisor, 2003 o Led a team of scholars in an independent audit of a content analysis of political coverage on local Chicago television. Professor Eric Schickler, supervisor, 2002-2003 o Created an extensive database of 19 th century suffrage laws for an upcoming study on their relation to party electoral objectives. Professor Bruce Cain, supervisor, 2002 o Collected data for study on national study on the impact of term limits on state legislatures, and researched the historic role of Vice Presidents during wartime. Professor Emeritus Harold Wilensky, supervisor, 2002 o Research Assistant for Prof. Wilensky s book Rich Democracies. Marc Levin, Assistant Director, Institute of Governmental Studies, supervisor 2000-2002 o Collected biographical information on the creators of political innovations, mainly figures from the progressive and civil rights eras. o Assisted in running a symposium on mental health policy. Professors Bruce Cain, John Ellwood, and Todd Lochner, supervisors, 1999-2000 o Collected data on California campaign finance regulation for a comparative study with the federal system. Professor Jack Nagel, 1995 o Collaborated on research that became the two co-authored papers Partisan Effects of Voter Turnout. 6
SERVICE TO THE DISCIPLINE: Peer Reviewer: American Journal of Political Science, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2014 American Politics Research, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013 American Political Science Review, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014 British Journal of Political Science, 2008 Congressional Quarterly Press, 2007, 2010 Journal of Political Marketing, 2010 Journal of Politics, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013 National Science Foundation, 2007, 2009 Oxford University Press, 2007 Political Analysis, 2008, 2009 Political Behavior, 2009, 2014 Political Research Quarterly, 2010, 2012 Political Studies, 2006 P.S., 2013 Public Choice, 2011, 2012 Westview Press, 2012, 2013 W.W. Norton, 2009 Yale University Press, 2011, 2013 Panel chair: American Political Science Association meeting, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2012. Midwest Political Science Association meeting, 2007, 2008, 2009. New York State Political Science Association meeting, 2009. Southern Political Science Association meeting, 2010. Western Political Science Association meetings, 2005, 2006, 2007. Discussant: American Political Science Association meeting, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012. Midwest Political Science Association meeting. 2007, 2008, 2009, 2013. New York State Political Science Association meeting, 2009. Southern Political Science Association meeting, 2010. Western Political Science Association meetings, 2005, 2007. Roundtable: American Political Science Association meeting, 2011. Invited Presentations: University of Georgia, November 2003; The George Washington University, November 2003; Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California at Berkeley, November 2004; University of Oklahoma, December 2004; Ramapo College of New Jersey, December 2004; Binghamton University, January 2005; University of Miami, February 2005; American Enterprise Institution and Brookings Institution, July 2007; The Binghamton Forum, September 2008; Albright College, February 2012; Texas A&M Commerce, April 2012; Chemung Valley History Museum, October 2012, University of Alabama at Birmingham, March 2014. 7
NON-ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE: The Franklin Mint, 1995-1998, Franklin Center, PA. Worked in Finance, Marketing, and Operations. USF&G Insurance, 1993-1995, Baltimore, MD & Harrisburg, PA. Worked in Marketing and Underwriting. 8