Alexander Jensen
Contact Information & Background:
Visiting Lecturer of Political Science
Office: Ladd Hall #315
Phone: 518-580-5255
Email: ajensen@skidmore.edu
Education:
- Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, University of Colorado Boulder (April 2024, expected)
- M.A., Political Science, University of Colorado Boulder (2020)
- B.A., Political Science, Gustavus Adolphus College (2018)
Research and Teaching Interests:
- Gender
- Public Opinion
- Political Psychology
- Parties and Elections
- Experimental Methods
- Surveys and Polling
Courses:
- Introduction to American Politics
- Gender and American Politics
- Experiments in Political Science
- Campaigns and Elections
- Public Opinion and Political Behavior (CU Boulder)
Select Publications
- Jensen, Alexander, Madeline Mader, Srinivas C. Parinandi, Anand E. Sokhey, and Michael Byrd. 2023. “Federal Slavery Legislation and Voting in U.S. Gubernatorial Elections, 1840-1860.” Journal of Historical Political Economy 3(2): 161-178.
- Gilbert, Christopher P., Joseph M. Cella, Alexander L. Jensen. 2017. “Minnesota: The Resurgence of Evangelical Political Strength in 2016.” in God at the Grassroots 2016: The Christian Right in American Politics. eds. Mark Rozell and Clyde Wilcox. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield.
In Preparation/Working Papers:
- A New Term for an Old Concept? The Political Nature of “Toxic” Masculinity (with Zoe Moss)
- Reconsidering the Effect of Masculinity on Reactions to a Politician’s Infidelity Scandal
- Understanding Public Reactions to Political Scandals: Results from a Series of Experiments (with Anand E. Sokhey)
- Intolerant Partisans: The Effect of Affective Polarization on Partisan Political Tolerance (with Courtney Nava, Anand E. Sokhey, and Paul Djupe)