Curriculum Vitae - Updated Spring 2019

Book Manuscript:

The VP Advantage: How Running Mates Influence Home State Voting in Presidential Elections

Book Chapter in an Edited Volume:

“#TeamGov: On the Political Experience, Campaign Messaging, and Electoral Performance of Johnson-Weld 2016.”  In Studies of Communication in the 2016 Presidential Campaign, edited by Robert E. Denton, Jr.

Scholarly Articles:

Split Tickets? On the Strategic Allocation of Presidential Versus Vice Presidential Campaign Visits in 2016

​Assessing Signature Work

Four Variations in Delivery and Design of Mock Trial for the Undergraduate Student

Bridge Over the River Qua: Using Simulations to Span the Divide Between Prelaw and Political Science Students

Assessing Outcomes of National Science Foundation Grants in the Social Sciences

Feminist Pedagogy and the Socratic Method: Partners in the Classroom or a Disaster Waiting to Happen?

The Politics of the Presidential Medal of Freedom: A Fifty-Year Analysis, 1963-2013

Shooting from the Hip: Concealed Cameras in the United States Supreme Court

Litigant Partisan Identification and Challenges to Campaign Finance Policies: An Examination of U.S. District Court Decisions, 1971-2007

Presidential Versus Vice Presidential Home State Advantage: A Comparative Analysis of Electoral Significance, Causes, and Processes, 1884-2008

Religious Identity and Political Participation in the Mennonite Church USA

The Vice Presidential Home State Advantage Reconsidered: Analyzing the Interactive Effect of Home State Population and Political Experience, 1884-2008

In the Eye of the Beholder?  Motivated Reasoning in Disputed Elections

Evolution of Judicial Careers in the Federal Courts

Partisanship Suppressed:  Judicial Decision-Making in Ralph Nader’s 2004 Ballot Access Litigation

Bush Fever:  Amish and Old Order Mennonites in the 2004 Presidential Election