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Jennifer Lin

Program Area(s):  Methods; American Politics; Experimental Methods

Regional Specialization(s):  United States

Dissertation Title:

Training Citizen Officers

Dissertation Committee:  James Druckman, Mary McGrath, Will Reno, Peter Feaver (Duke)

Research Interest(s): Political Behavior, Public Opinion, Social Networks, Political Geography, Civil-Military Relations

Publications: 

  • Lunz Trujillo, K. & Lin, J. (2025). Real or Imagined? American Urban-Rural Differences in Political Values. Political Research Quarterly.
  • Lin, J., & Lunz Trujillo, K. (2025). Urban-Rural Differences in Respect for the Norms of American Civil-Military Relations. American Politics Research 53(1), 36 - 47.
  • Lin, J. (2025). From Barack Obama to Donald Trump: The Evolution of Moral Appeals in National Conventions. Journal of Language and Politics 24(2), 177 – 213.
  • Lunz Trujillo, K., Green, J., Safarpour, A. C., Lazar, D., Lin, J., & Motta, M. (2024). COVID-19 Spillover Effects onto General Vaccine Attitudes. Public Opinion Quarterly 88(1), 97 – 122.
  • Safarpour, A. C., Lunz Trujillo, K., Green, J., Pippert, C., Lin, J., & Druckman, J. N. (2024). Divisive or Descriptive: How Americans Understand Critical Race Theory. Journal of Race and Ethnic Politics 9(1), 157 - 191.
  • Baum, M. A., Druckman, J. N., Simonson, M. D., Lin, J., & Perlis, R. H. (2023). The Political Consequences of Depression: How Conspiracy Beliefs, Participatory Inclinations, and Depression Affect Support for Political Violence. American Journal of Political Science 68(2), 575 - 594.
  • Lin, J., & Lunz Trujillo, K. (2023). Are Rural Attitudes Just Republican? Political Science Research and Methods 12(3), 675 - 684.
  • Green, J., Druckman, J. N., Baum, M. A., Lazer, D., Ognyanova, K., Simonson, M. D. Lin, J., Santillana, M., & Perlis, R. H. (2022). Using General Messages to Persuade on a Politicized Scientific Issue. British Journal of Political Science, 53(2), 698-706.
  • Lin, J., & Lunz-Trujillo, K. (2022) Urban-Rural Differences in Non-Voting Political Behavior. Political Research Quarterly 76(2), 851–868.
  • Christenson, D. P., Lin, J., & Makse, T. (2021). Ask Only What Your Country Can Do for You: Group Interests, Constituency Characteristics, and Demands for Representation. American Politics Research 49(1), 17 - 29.

Honors/Awards:

  • Doris A. Graber Award for Best Public Opinion Paper from Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research 2024 Annual Meeting for "Training Citizen Officers: Political Socialization from a Military Education".