We are delighted to introduce next year's visiting fellows in the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics. This sixteenth cohort of CSDP fellows will be in residence through the 2015-2016 academic year. Please join us in welcoming them to Princeton in September.
 

Kevin Arceneaux is Professor of Political Science, Faculty Affiliate with the Institute for Public Affairs, and Director of the Behavioral Foundations Lab at Temple University. He studies political communication, political psychology, and political behavior.  As a Center for the Study of Democratic Politics visiting scholar, he will devote his energy to projects that examine how the interaction between political messages and people’s predispositions influence their political attitudes.  
 

Tom Clark is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Political Science at Emory University. His research and teaching interests are in judicial politics, American politics, and law-making. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics, among others. His book, The Limits of Judicial Independence, was published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press and won the William Riker award for the best book in political economy. His current research projects include studies of judicial learning and communication and the statistical analysis of legal rules and doctrine.  Clark received his BA from Rutgers University in 2003 and his PhD from Princeton University in 2008.
 

While at CSDP, Clark will be working on a new book project that presents a quantitative history of American constitutional law.  The project uses a combination of statistical methods, including ideal-point estimation, textual analysis, and network analysis to describe patterns and trends in constitutional law.

Rachel Stein is Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Her research interests include public opinion about foreign policy, the domestic politics of international conflict in democratic states, the role of culture and norms in political processes, and experimental methods. During 2015-2016, as a visiting scholar at both the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics and the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, she will be working on a book project examining the American culture of revenge and its effects on public support for the use of military force. A related project, demonstrating that democracies with more vengeful populations are more likely to initiate military conflicts, is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review.

Chloé Bakalar is a 2015-16 Values and Public Policy Postdoctoral Research Associate with appointment in the Woodrow Wilson School/Center for the Study of Democratic Politics and the University Center for Human Values.  Bakalar is a political and legal theorist with an empirical background in American politics.  Her research focuses on questions of democratic theory, the history of modern political thought and public law.  She is currently working on a book manuscript, Small Talk? The Impact of Social Speech on Liberal Democratic Citizenship, that considers and maps the positive and negative effects of everyday talk on liberal democratic citizenship and political outcomes.  Bakalar holds an A.M. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania, and a bachelor’s degree in politics from New York University.