Elizabeth Theiss-Morse

Professor, Department Chair

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1989.
Fields: Public opinion, political psychology, and political behavior.

Elizabeth Theiss-Morse is co-author, with John Hibbing, of Stealth Democracy (Cambridge University Press [CUP], 2002) and Congress as Public Enemy (CUP, 1995), which won the Fenno Prize for the best book on legislative politics. She is also co-author, with George Marcus, John Sullivan, and Sandra Wood, of With Malice Toward Some (CUP, 1995), which won the Best Book in Political Psychology award. She is currently working on a major study of American national identity using a specially commissioned national survey, focus groups, and a series of experiments. She and Jeff Spinner-Halev published an article in Perspectives on Politics (September 2003) drawing on research in social psychology to address political theorists’ claims about the relationship between national identity and self-esteem. She has served as program co-chair for the Midwest Political Science Association, received five National Science Foundation grants, and won a distinguished teaching award.