Welcome!

My name is Jennifer Lin. I am Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rollins College. Broadly, my research interests are in American Politics and International Relations. I study civil-military relations, military professionalism, urban-rural politics, public opinion, social networks and political engagement. My first book, Training Citizen Officers, explores the attitudes of students in Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) programs compared to their civilian counterparts. I also consider how the American people understand and support ROTC programs on college campuses. My research has appeared many outlets, including the American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, Political Science Research and Methods, and American Politics Research

Beyond my research, I am passionate about teaching and mentoring students. At Rollins College, I teach classes in American Politics, Political Psychology, Media Politics, American Political Polarization and Quantitative Methods. Previously, at Northwestern University, I taught courses in US Foreign Policy, Civil-Military Relations and Empirical Methods.

I earned my Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) and Masters of Arts (MA) in Political Science from Northwestern University and my Bachelors of Arts (BA) with Honors in Psychology and Political Science from New College of Florida.

Publications

  1. Lunz Trujillo, K. & Lin, J. (2025). Real or Imagined? American Urban-Rural Differences in Political Values. Political Research Quarterly.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Lin, J., & Lunz Trujillo, K. (2023). Are Rural Attitudes Just Republican? Political Science Research and Methods 12(3), 675 - 684.
  8. 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.
  9. Lin, J., & Lunz-Trujillo, K. (2022) Urban-Rural Differences in Non-Voting Political Behavior. Political Research Quarterly 76(2), 851–868.
  10. 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.