Jacob Smith

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I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Fordham University. I also have a M.A. in Political Science from UNC-Chapel Hill and a B.A. in Political Science from Kenyon College.

I have published two books with University of Michigan Press. The first (Minority Party Misery: Political Powerlessness and Electoral Disengagement) was released in 2021, while the second (Waves of Discontent: Electoral Volatility, Public Policymaking, and the Health of American Democracy) will publish in August 2025.

I have also examined political advertising in the context of North Carolina Commissioner of Labor Cherie Berry, whose picture appears on official inspection placards in every elevator in the state. Other research projects include an examination of the effect of the Donald Trump nomination on congressional candidate and a study of the effects of gun control policy and mental health access on the rate of gun deaths in the American states.

Experience

  • 2023–present
    Assistant Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
  • 2022–2023
    Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Kenyon College
  • 2020–2022
    Assistant Research Professor of Statistical and Political Science, Duke University
  • 2018–2020
    Lecturing Fellow of the Thompson Writing Program, Duke University

Education

  • 2018 
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, PhD
  • 2014 
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MA
  • 2012 
    Kenyon College, BA

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