Bethany L Albertson


Bethany L Albertson
Associate Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts

Phone: +1 512 232 7276
Email: balberts@austin.utexas.edu

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Daniel Oppenheimer (primary)
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Lauren Macknight (primary)
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Bethany Albertson is an Associate Professor in the Government Department at UT Austin. She received her PhD in political science and a graduate certificate in social psychology from the University of Chicago. She was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University and a Harrington Faculty Fellow at UT Austin. She is a political psychologist and her research interests include American public opinion, emotion, and experimental methods. Her book, Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World, was co-authored with Shana Kushner Gadarian and was published by Cambridge. Anxious Politics was awarded the 2016 Robert E. Lane Award for best book in political psychology and the 2021 Doris Graber Award for the best book in the political communication in the past decade, both through APSA. At University of Texas she has received the Josephina Paredes Endowed Teaching Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching and the PresidentÂ’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award. She is currently the faculty director for the Archer Fellowship Program.

Media Rep Contact

Daniel Oppenheimer (primary)
512-475-9712
email

Lauren Macknight (primary)
512-232-6504
email