Shana Kushner Gadarian is associate professor and department chair in the Department of Political Science at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University. She received a PhD in politics from Princeton University, and was previously a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research. Her book Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World, coauthored with Bethany Albertson, won the 2016 Robert E. Lane Award from the American Political Science Association for best book in political psychology.
Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Norwegian Research Council, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Campbell Public Affairs Institute, among others. Her work has been published in outlets such as the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, Political Psychology, Political Communication, Political Behavior, Perspectives on Politics, and Politics, Groups, and Identities.
Her project “Pandemic Politics: How COVID-19 Revealed the Depths of Partisan Polarization,” investigates how the public perceived the crisis, and how those perceptions continue to matter more than a year after the initial outbreak. Political polarization makes governance more difficult and has proven to be deadly in this pandemic. The project will focus on the long-term impacts of the pandemic on health behaviors and evaluations of government performance. Pandemic Politics: How COVID-19 Revealed the Depths of American Polarization, cowritten with Sara Wallace Goodman and Thomas Pepinsky, will be forthcoming from Princeton University Press.
