Shanto Iyengar
Shanto Iyengar | |
|---|---|
| Born | India |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Linfield College (B.A., 1968) University of Iowa (Ph.D., 1972) |
| Known for | Work on political communication |
| Awards | 1996 Goldsmith Book Prize (with Stephen Ansolabehere) 1998 Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award from the American Political Science Association |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Political science |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Thesis | The correlates and consequences of response stability: a methodological analysis (1972) |
Shanto Iyengar is an American political scientist and professor of political science at Stanford University. He is also the Harry & Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford, the director of Stanford's Political Communication Lab, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.[1]
Biography
[edit]Iyengar received an initial bachelor's degree in his native India and then received a bachelor's degree from Linfield College in 1968 and his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1972.[2] In 1973, he joined the faculty of Kansas State University as an assistant professor, where he remained until 1979. He taught at Yale University as an assistant professor from 1983 to 1985, and then taught at Stony Brook University and the University of California, Los Angeles before joining Stanford's faculty in 1998.[3]
Research
[edit]Iyengar is known for his work on the role of the news media in contemporary politics.[1] This includes work he conducted with Dartmouth College political scientist Sean J. Westwood, in which they analyze partisan divisions in American politics.[4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Shanto Iyengar". Stanford Political Communication Lab. Retrieved 2017-10-08.
- ^ "DAA Awardee: Shanto Iyengar". University of Iowa Center for Advancement. Retrieved 2023-08-20.
- ^ "Shanto Iyengar CV" (PDF).
- ^ Badger, Emily; Chokshi, Niraj (2017-06-15). "How We Became Bitter Political Enemies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-10-08.
- ^ Weeks, Linton (2014-10-15). "What Is Really Tearing America Apart". NPR. Retrieved 2017-10-08.
External links
[edit]- Shanto Iyengar publications indexed by Google Scholar
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- Living people
- American political scientists
- Stanford University faculty
- Linfield University alumni
- University of Iowa alumni
- Kansas State University faculty
- Yale University faculty
- University of California, Los Angeles faculty
- Stony Brook University faculty
- Hoover Institution people
- American political psychologists
- Indian emigrants to the United States
- American academics of Indian descent