PERSON: Bethany Albertson

UT Austin

Assistant Professor

I am a political psychologist and received my PhD from the University of Chicago. Prior to coming to UT, I was on faculty at the University of Washington and was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University.

At UT, I have been a Donald D. Harrington Fellow, and in 2014, I was awarded the Josefina Paredes Endowed Teaching Award, in recognition for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

My forthcoming book, Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World, will be published by Cambridge University Press and is co-authored with Shana Gadarian of Syracuse University.

My work explores political attitudes and persuasion. I am particularly interested in emotion, religion in American politics and experimental methods.