Welcome!

My name is Jennifer Lin. I am a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University. 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 research has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, Political Science Research and Methods, American Politics Research, and Journal of American Medical Association – Network Open.

Beyond my research, I am passionate about teaching and mentoring students. I am interested and prepared to teach classes in American politics, research design and quantitative methods, including surveys, experiments, and computational methods in R.

I earned my Bachelors of Arts (BA) with Honors in Psychology and Political Science from New College of Florida.

I am on the Academic Job Market in Fall 2024. My CV is available here.

Publications

  1. Lin, J., & Lunz Trujillo, K. (2024). Urban-Rural Differences in Respect for the Norms of American Civil-Military Relations. American Politics Research.
  2. Lin, J. (2024). From Barack Obama to Donald Trump: The Evolution of Moral Appeals in National Conventions. Journal of Language and Politics.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Lin, J., & Lunz Trujillo, K. (2023). Are Rural Attitudes Just Republican? Political Science Research and Methods.
  7. 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.
  8. Lin, J., & Lunz-Trujillo, K. (2022) Urban-Rural Differences in Non-Voting Political Behavior. Political Research Quarterly 76(2),
  9. 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.