ࡱ>  Πbjbjvv 0"jjΘt t mmmmmLL(VLXLXLXLXLXLXLYNQfXLmBBBXLmmmLFFFBmmVLFBVLFFF2ScLDFBLL0LFuQ.EuQFuQmF\ >) F3:XLXL FLBBBBuQt 3: Mark D. Brewer Department of Political Science 91 5754 North Stevens Hall Orono, ME 04469-5754 Office Phone: (207) 581-1863 Office Fax: (207) 581-4856 Home Phone: (207) 866-1257  HYPERLINK "mailto:mark.brewer@umit.maine.edu" mark.brewer@maine.edu EDUCATION Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Department of Political Science Ph.D., May 2001 Dissertation: The Electoral Behavior of American Catholics Dissertation Committee: Jeffrey M. Stonecash (Chair), Kristi Andersen, Suzanne B. Mettler, Rogan Kersh, and Joe Cammarano Fields of Study: American Government and Public Policy and Administration M.A., May 1997 Research Interests: Political Behavior, Political Parties, Campaigns and Elections, Religion and Politics, Congress, Interest Groups, American Founding Era, and American Political History. Syracuse University S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications & College of Arts and Sciences B.A., Dual Major in Journalism and Political Science (Summa Cum Laude), May 1993 TEACHING EXPERIENCE 91 Department of Political Science Professor, September 2014-Present Chair, July 2023-Present Interim Chair, July 2015-June 2016; July 2021-June 2022; January 2023-June 2023 Associate Professor, September 2009-August 2014 Assistant Professor, September 2004-August 2009 Honors College Honors College Faculty, September 2006-August 2022 Courses Taught: Introduction to American Government, Urban Politics, Political Parties and Elections, Religion and Politics, Interest Groups, Music and Politics, Public Opinion, Crafting the Constitution, American State and Local Government, The Politics of Sport in America, Introduction to Comparative Politics, Leadership Ethics, Advanced Leadership Theory and Practice, Senior Seminar, and First-Year Honors College Sequence. Colby College Department of Government Visiting Associate Professor, Spring 2011 Visiting Assistant Professor, 2002-2004 Faculty Fellow, 2001-2002 Courses Taught: Urban Politics, Religion and Politics, Congressional Simulation, Introduction to American Government, and Research Methods. Syracuse University Department of Political Science Instructor for American State and Local Government and Politics, Spring 2001 and Spring 1999. Instructor for Urban Government and Politics, Fall 2000. Teaching Associate, 1997-98. Shared responsibility for orientation of incoming political science graduate students and design/scheduling of professional development seminars. Teaching Assistant for Political Parties, Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior, Campaign Analysis, The American Chief Executive, Introduction to American Government, Law and Society, and The Judicial Process, 1995-1998. RELATED ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE 91 Campus Lead, Gateways to Success Initiative, July 2022-August 2023; Co-Lead, September 2023-May 2025; Lead, May 2025-Present. CLAS Promotion and Tenure Advisory Committee, Fall 2023-Present. Member, Strategic Re-Envisioning Working Group on Enhancing Academic Programs, Summer 2024-Present. Online Student Evaluations of Teaching (SET) Administrator, November 2018-May 2019. 91 Legal Studies Minor Advisor, September 2015-Present. Member, NECHE Self Study Writing Team (Standard Four), Spring 2021-Summer 2021. Co-Director, Judaic Studies Program, September 2016-June 2018. University Research Council, Fall 2015-Spring 2018. 91 Faculty Fellows Program, Fall 2013-Spring 2016. Selection Committee for 2015-2016 cohort, Spring 2015. Chair, Search Committee for Director of the Rising Tide Center and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, AY 2015-2016. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, First Year Student Success and Retention Committee, Fall 2014-Present. Honors College Faculty Advisory Council, Spring 2016-Spring 2020. Cooperating Faculty, Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, Spring 2015-Present. Peace Studies Advisory Council, Fall 2021-Present. Faculty Evaluator, TedX91, Spring 2016. 91 Presidential Teaching Award Committee, Spring 2015; AY 2017-2018, AY 2018-2019, AY 2019-2020, AY 2020-2021. Faculty Representative, Faculty Development Subcommittee of the Adult Baccalaureate Completion/Distance Education (ABCDE) Initiative, Spring 2014-Spring 2018. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Awards Committee, Fall 2014-Spring 2017, Chair, AY 2014-2015. Advocates and Allies Workshop for Gender Equality on Campus, led by faculty from North Dakota State University, March 2014. Communications Training and Workshop, Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, Stony Brook University, March 2014. Training occurred on the 91 campus. Working Group, Partnering with the Library of Congress on Civic Literacy, September 2013-Spring 2014. Advisory Council, Institute for Leadership and Democracy, August 2013-Fall 2015. Nickerson Bequest Steering Committee, August 2013-Fall 2015. Peer Committee, Honors College, April 2013-July 2015, Chair, May 2013-July 2015. Task Force, Measurement of Scholarly and Creative Activity, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, March 2013-Fall 2018. Pathway Team Member on Pathway 4Transforming Lives: Strengthening the 91 Undergraduate and Graduate Student Experience, Presidential Blue Sky Plan, 91 Comprehensive Strategic Plan, August 2012-September 2013. Advisory Council, Judaic Studies Program, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, August 2012-Present. Co-Pre-Law Advisor, Department of Political Science, Fall 2005-Present. Faculty Advisor for Pi Sigma Alpha, Fall 2005-Present. Faculty Representative to the James Madison Fellowship Program, Fall 2004-Present. Faculty Representative to the Harry S. Truman Foundation Scholarship Program, Fall 2011-Present. Instructor, "The 2016 Election Cycle," Penobscot Valley Senior College, Fall 2016. Instructor, "The 2012 Election Cycle," Penobscot Valley Senior College, Fall 2012. Interdisciplinary Peer Committee for College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Honors College Preceptor of English, Fall 2011-July 2015, Chair, Fall 2014-July 2015. Interdisciplinary Peer Committee for College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Honors College Preceptor of Political Science, Fall 2014-Present; Chair, July 2016-June 2020. Interdisciplinary Peer Committee for College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Honors College Preceptor of Psychology, AY 2016-2017. Interdisciplinary Peer Committee for College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture and Honors College Preceptor of Genomics, Fall 2016-Present, Chair, Fall 2019-Spring 2021. Peer Committee, Department of Communications and Journalism, Spring 2018-August 2019. Peer Committee, Lecturer in Leadership Studies, Cohen Institute of Leadership and Public Service, Fall 2017-Spring 2021, Fall 2022; Chair, Fall 2017-Spring 2021, Fall 2022. Review Committee, Dean of Libraries Joyce Rumery, Academic Year 2013-2014. Search Committee, Retention and Enrollment Specialist, Division of Lifelong Learning, Fall 2018-Spring 2019. Search Committee, Honors College Administrative Assistant, Fall 2018-Spring 2019. Search Committee, Honors College Assistant Dean, Spring-Summer 2015. Search Committee, University Major Scholarships Coordinator, Summer 2017. Interim Campus Liaison to The Washington Center, Spring 2008 and Spring 2010. Member of the 91/UVote Logistics Committee, Fall 2004. Colby College Interim Campus Liaison to The Washington Center, Fall 2002. Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences, Summer Faculty Advising, 2001. Served as summer faculty advisor for forty incoming first-year students. Assisted with first semester course selections and general inquiries about the University. College of Arts and Sciences, Academic Advising and Counseling Services, 2000-2001. Faculty advisor for approximately 100 lower-division arts and sciences majors. Responsibilities included course selection assistance, advising on major selection, and general student counseling. Department of Political Science Graduate student representative on American Politics Search Committee, 2000-2001. PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Parties and Elections in America, 10th edition, with L. Sandy Maisel. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2024. Parties and Elections in America, 9th edition, with L. Sandy Maisel. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. Parties and Elections in America, 8th edition, with L. Sandy Maisel. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. Parties and Elections in America, 7th edition, with L. Sandy Maisel. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. Polarization and the Politics of Personal Responsibility, with Jeffrey M. Stonecash. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. The Parties Respond, 5th edition, with L. Sandy Maisel, eds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2013. Parties and Elections in America, 6th edition, with L. Sandy Maisel. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012. Parties and Elections in America, 5th edition, post-election update, with L. Sandy Maisel. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. Dynamics of American Political Parties, with Jeffrey M. Stonecash, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Party Images in the American Electorate, New York: Routledge, 2009. Parties and Elections in America, 5th edition, with L. Sandy Maisel. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. Split: Class and Cultural Divides in American Politics, with Jeffrey M. Stonecash. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2007. Relevant No More? The Catholic/Protestant Divide in American Electoral Politics. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003. Diverging Parties: Realignment, Social Change, and Party Polarization, with Jeffrey M. Stonecash and Mack D. Mariani. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2003. ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS Party Polarization is Real and Multifaceted, Government & Politics: Civics for the American Experiment, Bill of Rights Institute, Arlington, VA, 2025. The Trump Indictment: Some History Helps Understand It, But Were in Uncharted Territory, The Maine Monitor, March 31, 2023. Preface, Report of the APSA Task Force on Political Parties, March 2023. Political Parties, Developments in American Politics, 9th ed., Gillian Peele et al., eds., London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022. The Evolution of the Republican Party Coalition, 1968-2020, with Richard J. Powell, in Polarization and Political Party Factions in the 2020 Election, Jennifer Lucas, Christopher Galdieri, and Tauna Sisco, eds.,151-168, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022. "Trump Knows Best: Donald Trump's Rejection of Expertise and the 2020 Presidential Election," Society, Volume 57, No. 6: 657-661, 2020. "The Political Survival of Susan Collins," Fixgov, The Brookings Institution, December 22, 2020.  HYPERLINK "https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/12/22/the-political-survival-of-susan-collins/" https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/12/22/the-political-survival-of-susan-collins/ Populism and Nationalism in US Politics, Populist Nationalism in Europe and the Americas, Fernando Lopez-Alves and Diane E. Johnson, eds., 170-187, New York: Routledge, 2019. "Targeting the Vote: Constituency Appeals and Group Voting in the 2016 Presidential Election," with Richard J. Powell, in Conventional Wisdom, Parties, and Broken Barriers in the 2016 Election, Jennifer Lucas, Christopher Galdieri, and Tauna Sisco, eds., 3-26, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. "Donald Trump and the 'Other': How an Unconventional Campaign Defeated the State of the Art Establishment," with Richard J. Powell, in The 2016 Presidential Election: The Causes and Consequences of a Political Earthquake, Amnon Cavari, Richard J. Powell, and Kenneth R. Mayer, eds., 3-21, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017. "Trump in Vacation Land: How President Trump is Perceived in Maine," Utica College Center for Public Affairs and Election Research, Part of "50 Takes on Trump." June 1, 2017. "Populism in American Politics," The Forum 14 (3): 249-264, 2016. "Class and American Politics," in Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science, L. Sandy Maisel, ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. "Constituency Appeals and Group Voting in the 2012 Presidential Election," with Richard J. Powell, in The Presidential Election of 2012, Douglas Brattebo, Thomas Lansford, Jack Covarrubias and Robert Pauly, Jr., eds., 239-275, Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 2016. "The Role of Religion in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election," with Richard J. Powell, in The 2012 Presidential Election: Forecasts, Outcomes, and Consequences, Amnon Cavari, Richard J. Powell, and Kenneth Mayer, eds., 23-44, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. "Courting the Catholic Vote: Obama, Romney, and the U.S. Catholic Bishops in the 2012 Presidential Election," with Richard J. Powell, in The American Election 2012: Contexts and Consequences, R. Ward Holder and Peter B. Josephson, eds., 231-248, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. "Parties and the Response to Change: The Representation and Mobilization of Divisions in a Nation," with Jeffrey M. Stonecash, in Guide to United States Political Parties, Marjorie R. Hershey, ed., 16-28, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2014. "Attempting to Build a Winner: Parties and the Crafting of Electoral Coalitions," in The Parties Respond, 5th ed., Mark D. Brewer and L. Sandy Maisel, eds., 47-73, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2013. Unintended Consequences: Republican Strategy and Winning and Losing Voters, with Rebekah E. Liscio and Jeffrey M. Stonecash, in The State of the Parties, 6th ed., John C. Green and Daniel J. Coffey, eds., 255-270, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011. Secular Realignment, in The Encyclopedia of Political Science, George T. Kurian, ed., Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2011. Strategic Maneuvers: Political Parties and the Pursuit of Winning Coalitions in a Constantly Changing Electoral Environment, in New Directions in American Political Parties, Jeffrey M. Stonecash, ed., 22-43, New York: Routledge, 2010. The Evolution and Alteration of Party Coalitions, in The Oxford Handbook of American Political Parties and Interest Groups, L. Sandy Maisel and Jeffrey M. Berry, eds., 121-142, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Conservatism, in Encyclopedia of United States Political History, Volume 7, 1976-Present, Richard Valelly, ed., Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2010. Religious Freedom in America and the World: Commentary on Religious Conscience in Colonial New England, with James W. Warhola, Journal of Church and State, Volume 50, No. 2 (Autumn 2008): 687-691. Constituencies and the Consequences of the Presidential Vote, with Richard J. Powell, in A Defining Moment: The Presidential Election of 2004, William J. Crotty, ed., 20-45, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2005. The Rise of Partisanship and the Expansion of Partisan Conflict within the American Electorate, Political Research Quarterly, Volume 58, No. 2 (June 2005): 219-229. Tightly Contested Everywhere but the Ballot Box: The 2002 Campaign for United States Senate in Maine, in Running on Empty? Campaign Discourse in Congressional Elections, L. Sandy Maisel and Darrell M. West, eds., 199-213, Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. Politics, Alfred Smith, and Increasing the Power of the New York Governors Office, with Jeffrey M. Stonecash et al., New York History, Volume 85, No. 2 (Spring 2004): 149-179. Assessing Conventional Wisdom about Religion and Politics: A Preliminary View from the Pews, with Rogan Kersh and R. Eric Petersen, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 42, No. 1 (March 2003): 125-136. Northern Democrats and Party Polarization in the U.S. House, with Jeffrey M. Stonecash and Mack D. Mariani, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Volume 27, No. 3 (August 2002): 423-444. Class, Race Issues, and Declining White Support for the Democratic Party in the South, with Jeffrey M. Stonecash, Political Behavior, Volume 23, No. 2 (June 2001): 131-155. The Economy, Taxes, and Policy Constraints in New York, with Jeffrey M. Stonecash, in Governing New York State, Jeffrey M. Stonecash, ed., 205-213, Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2001. Political Parties and Elections, with Jeffrey M. Stonecash, in Governing New York State, Jeffrey M. Stonecash, ed., 43-62, Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2001. Class and Party: Secular Realignment and the Survival of Democrats outside the South, with Jeffrey M. Stonecash et al., Political Research Quarterly, Volume 53, No. 4 (December 2000): 731-752. The Liberal Party of New York State, with Jeffrey M. Stonecash, in The Encyclopedia of Third Parties in America, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2000. Maintaining A Republican Senate in New York: Apportionment, Incumbency, and Campaign Spending, with Jeffrey M. Stonecash et al., Comparative State Politics, Volume 19, No. 4 (August 1998): 19-29. BOOK REVIEWS Review of Parties and Prejudice: The Normalization of Antiminority Rhetoric in US Politics, Maneesh Arora, Choice, forthcoming. Review of Free Exercise: Religion, the First Amendment, and the Making of America, Chris Beneke, Choice, November 2025. Review of Blessing America First: Religion, Populism, and Foreign Policy in the Trump Administration, David T. Buckley, Choice, June 2025. Review of The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them, Aziz Rana, Choice, December 2024. Review of Problems of Political Secularism: Broken Politics, Unkind Cultures, Kenneth J. Long, Choice, July 2024. Review of Nationalized Politics: Evaluating Electoral Politics Across Time, Jamie L. Carson, Joel Sievert, and Ryan D. Williamson, Choice, May 2024. Review of Christianity and Constitutionalism, by Nicholas Aroney and Ian Leigh, eds., Choice, January 2024. Review of Primary Elections and American Politics: The Unintended Consequences of Progressive Era Reform, by Chapman Rackaway and Joseph Romance, Choice, July 2023. Review of What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party, by Michael Kazin, Choice, April 2023. Review of Old Tip vs. The Sly Fox: The 1840 Election and the Making of a Partisan Nation, by Richard J. Ellis, Perspectives on Politics, Volume 20, No. 3 (September 2022): 1105-1106. Review of How Political Parties Mobilize Religion: Lessons from Mexico and Turkey, by Luis Felipe Mantilla, Choice, September 2022. Review of Religious Liberty in Crisis: Exercising Your Faith in an Age of Uncertainty, by Ken Starr, Choice, August 2022. Review of The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment, by Ilan Wurman, Choice, December 2021. Review of Clinton's Elections: 1992, 1996, and the Birth of a New Era of Governance, by Michael Nelson, Choice, May 2021. Review of After Reagan: Bush, Dukakis, and the 1988 Election, by John J. Pitney, Jr., Choice, July 2020. Review of Legacies of Losing in American Politics, by Jeffrey K. Tulis and Nicole Mellow, Perspectives on Politics, Volume 18, No. 1 (March 2020): 268-269. Review of America's Religious Wars, by Kathleen M. Sands, Choice, January 2020. Review of Representation and the Electoral College, by Robert M. Alexander, Choice, September 2019. Review of Enchanted America, by J. Eric Oliver and Thomas J. Wood, Choice, April 2019. Review of Are Politics Local?, by Scott Morgenstern, Choice, May 2018. Review of The Mask and the Flag, by Paolo Gerbaudo, Choice, January 2018. Review of The American Political Pattern, by Byron E. Shafer, Choice, August 2017. Review of Independent Politics, by Samara Klar and Yanna Krupnikov, Choice, November 2016. Review of The Democratic Constitution, 2nd Edition, by Neal Devins and Louis Fisher, Choice, July 2016. Review of Party Ballots, Reform, and the Transformation of America's Electoral System, by Erik J. Engstrom and Samuel Kernell, Perspectives on Politics, Volume 14, No. 1 (March 2016): 230-232. Review of The Jefferson Rule: How the Founding Fathers Became Infallible and Our Politics Inflexible, by David Sehat, Choice, January 2016. Review of Groundbreakers: How Obama's 2.2 Million Volunteers Transformed Campaigning in America by Elizabeth McKenna and Hahrie Han, Choice, October 2015. Review of Republican Theology: The Civil Religion and American Evangelicals, by Benjamin T. Lynerd, Choice, April 2015. Review of Political Ideologies and Political Parties in America, by Hans Noel, Congress & the Presidency, Volume 42, No. 1 (January-April 2015): 114-116. Review of The American Political Landscape, by Byron E. Shafer and Richard H. Spady, Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 76, No. 4 (December 2014): 1029-1031. Review of Ambivalent Miracles: Evangelicals and the Politics of Racial Healing, by Nancy D. Wadsworth, Choice, November 2014. Review of Timing and Turnout: How Off-Cycle Elections Favor Organized Groups, by Sarah F. Anzia, Choice, September 2014. Review of Exile &Embrace: Contemporary Religious Discourse on the Death Penalty, by Anthony Santoro, Choice, May 2014. Review of The Tragedy of Religious Freedom, by Marc O. DeGirolami, Choice, February 2014. Review of American Evangelicals Today, by Corwin E. Smidt, Choice, November 2013. Review of Piety and Public Funding: Evangelicals and the State in Modern America, by Axel R. Schafer, Choice, May 2013. Review of The Performance of Politics: Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power, by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Party Politics, Volume 19, No. 1 (January 2013): 163-165. Review of The Morality of Spin: Virtue and Vice in Political Rhetoric and the Christian Right, by Nathaniel J. Klemp, Choice, October 2012. Review of Pluralism and Freedom: Faith-Based Organizations in a Democratic Society, by Stephen V. Monsma, Choice, August 2012. Review of From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism, by D.G. Hart, Choice, March 2012. Review of Church, State, and the Crisis in American Secularism, by Bruce Ledewitz, Choice, January 2012. Review of The Performance of Politics: Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power, by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Choice, August 2011. Review of Out and Running: Gay and Lesbian Candidates, Elections, and Policy Representation, by Donald P. Haider-Markel, Choice, April 2011. Review of The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right, by Jon A. Shields, Review of Politics, Volume 72, No. 1 (Winter 2010): 155-157. Review of The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America, by David Domke and Kevin Coe, Politics and Religion, Volume 3, No. 1 (April 2010): 181-183. Review of From Pews to Polling Places: Faith and Politics in the American Religious Mosaic, edited by J. Matthew Wilson, Journal of Church and State, Volume 50, No. 3 (Summer 2008): 607-609. Review of The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America, by Ronald Brownstein and Pennsylvania Avenue: Profiles in Backroom Power, by John Harwood and Gerald F. Seib, The Forum, Volume 6, No. 2, Article 13 (2008). Review of The Values Campaign? The Christian Right and the 2004 Elections, edited by John C. Green, Mark J. Rozell, and Clyde Wilcox, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 46, No. 2 (June 2007): 282-283. Review of In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns, by John G. Geer, Review of Politics, Volume 69, No. 1 (Winter 2007): 154-157. Review of Tides of Consent: How Public Opinion Shapes American Politics, by James A. Stimson, Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 69, No. 4 (Winter 2005): 632-634. Review of The American Catholic Voter, by George J. Marlin, Review of Politics, Volume 67, No. 3 (Summer 2005): 153-155. Review of Electoral Democracy, edited by Michael B. MacKuen and George Rabinowitz, Perspectives on Politics, Volume 2, No. 2 (June 2004): 380-381. Review of Electoral Realignments: A Critique of an American Genre, by David R. Mayhew, Journal of Politics, Volume 66, No. 2 (May 2004): 639-641. Review of Faith in Politics, by A. James Reichley, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 43, No. 1 (March 2004): 155-156. Review of Partisan Hearts and Minds: Political Parties and the Social Identities of Voters, by Donald Green, Bradley Palmquist, and Eric Schickler, Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 67, No. 4 (Winter 2003): 660-662. WORKS IN PROGRESS The Place of Populism in American Politics. Barry Goldwater and Changing the Republican Party Base, with Jeffrey M. Stonecash. CONFERENCE PAPERS Takeover Completed? Donald Trump and the Evolution of the Republican Party Coalition, with Richard J. Powell. 2025 American Elections Conference, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH, March 15, 2025. "The Evolution of the Republican Party Coalition, 1968-2020," with Richard J. Powell. Election in a Time of Crisis, St. Anselm College, Manchester, NH, March 13, 2021. "Donald J. Trump and the Politics of Disrespect." Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 7-9, 2019. "Targeting the Vote: Constituency Appeals and Group Voting in the 2016 Presidential Election," with Richard J. Powell. Broken: Barriers, Parties, and Conventional Wisdom, The American Elections Symposium 2017, St. Anselm College, Manchester, NH, March 18, 2017. "Donald Trump and the "Other": How an Unconventional Campaign Defeated the State of the Art Establishment," with Richard J. Powell. Presidential Election of 2016: Campaign and Results Conference, Herzliya, Israel, January 8-10, 2017. "Populism in the 2016 US Presidential Election." Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 10-12, 2016. "Support for Populism in American Politics." New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Newport, RI, April 22-23, 2016. "The Place of Populism in American Politics." Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 12-14, 2015. Courting the Catholic Vote: Obama, Romney, and the U.S. Catholic Bishops in the 2012 Presidential Election," with Richard J. Powell. New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Portland, ME, May 2-4, 2013. "The 2012 Presidential Campaign through the Lenses of Personal Responsibility and Individual Opportunity," with Jeffrey M. Stonecash. New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Portland, ME, May 2-4, 2013. "Catholic Issues and Voters in the 2012 Presidential Election," with Richard J. Powell. The American Election 2012: Contexts and Consequences, New Hampshire Institute of Politics, St. Anselm College, Manchester, NH, March 15-16, 2013. "The Role of Religion in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election," with Richard J. Powell. The 2012 U.S. Presidential Election, Interdisciplinary Center, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy, Herzliya, Israel, January 6-8, 2013. "Constituency Appeals and Group Voting in the 2012 Presidential Election," with Richard J. Powell. The Presidential Election of 2012, Garfield Institute for Public Leadership, Hiram College, Hiram, OH, November 16-17, 2012. "Individual vs. Societal Responsibility: The Root of Partisan and Ideological Conflict," with Jeffrey M. Stonecash. Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 11-14, 2012. "The Politics of Personal Responsibility: Social Science, Ideological Evolution, and the Rise of Polarization in American Politics," with Jeffrey M. Stonecash. Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 17-19, 2011. The Battle over Personal Responsibility: The Evolution of American Liberalism and the Conservative Response, with Jeffrey M. Stonecash. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, September 2-5, 2010. Personal Responsibility and Americas Partisan and Ideological Divides: the 1960s and Beyond, with Jeffrey M. Stonecash. New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Newport, RI, April 23-24, 2010. Changing the Political Dialogue and Political Alignments: George Wallace and his 1968 Presidential Campaign, with Jeffrey M. Stonecash. Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 2-5, 2009. The Evolution and Electoral Impact of White Evangelicals Party Images. Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 3-6, 2008. Origins of Success? Barry Goldwater and the Contemporary Republican Party, with Jeffrey M. Stonecash. Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 3-6, 2008. Party Images and Presidential Vote. Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 12-15, 2007. Presidential Elections and Electoral Realignments, 1900-2004, with Jeffrey M. Stonecash. Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 12-15, 2007. The Substance and Evolution of Party Images in the United States. New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Portsmouth, NH, May 5-6, 2006. Two Americas? An Examination of the Substantive and Group Bases of Electoral Polarization in the United States. Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 17-19, 2005. Constituencies and the 2004 Presidential Vote, with Richard J. Powell. New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Portland, ME, April 29-30, 2005. Cultural Politics and Class Political Divisions, with Jeffrey M. Stonecash. Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 7-10, 2005. Stability or Change? Party Images in America. Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 11-13, 2004. A Divided Public? Party Images and Polarization in the United States. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, August 28-September 1, 2002. Religious Based Political Cleavage: Denomination, Religious Salience, and Electoral Behavior. Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 25-28, 2002. The Rise of a New Religion-Based Political Cleavage? Religious Salience and Electoral Behavior. Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Albany, NY, November 9-11, 2000. Roman Catholics and the Democratic Party. Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 27-30, 2000. Northern Democrats and Party Polarization in the U.S. House, with Jeffrey M. Stonecash and Mack D. Mariani. Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 27-30, 2000. Catholic Electoral Behavior in the United States: An Examination. Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA, November 4-6, 1999. Assessing Conventional Wisdom About Religion and Politics: A View From the Pews, with Rogan Kersh et al. Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA, November 4-6, 1999. Race, Class, and Political Change in the South, with Jeffrey M. Stonecash. Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 15-17, 1999. The Sixteenth Amendment: Questions, Complaints, and Conspiracy? New York State Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Albany, NY, May 8-9, 1998. The Survival of the Democrats: Secular Realignment Outside the South, with Jeffrey M. Stonecash et al. Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 23-25, 1998. American Catholics: A Story of Discrimination and Assimilation. Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 13-15, 1997. AWARDS Distinguished Maine Professor, 2025. Alumni Association, 91. Outstanding Faculty Award, Service and Outreach, 2019. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 91 Faculty Excellence Award, September 2018 91 Alumni Association Course Development Grant, 2016 Cohen Institute for Leadership and Public Service Outstanding Faculty Award, Teaching and Advising, 2014. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 91 Online Course Grant, 2012-2013 College of Continuing and Distance Education, 91 Online Course Grant, 2010 College of Continuing and Distance Education, 91 Active Learning Grant, 2010 (with Amy Fried) Center for Teaching Excellence, 91 Summer Faculty Research Award, 2009 Office of the Vice President of Research, 91 Outstanding Advisor Award, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2007-2008 Student Government, 91 Summer Faculty Research Award, 2006 Office of the Vice President of Research, 91 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2001 Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs Certificate in University Teaching The Graduate School of Syracuse University, May 2001 Syracuse University Graduate Fellowship 1999-2000 Academic Year Professional Affiliations and Activities Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Political Science, 2010-Present. Academic Advisory Board, Civic Pulse, June 2024-Present. External Reviewer, Department of Political Science, Providence College, April-May 2025. College Board, Visiting Fellowship in Assessment, AP U.S. Government and Politics Exam, Summer 2024. College Board, Review of AP U.S. Government and Politics Exam, January 2024. Advisory Board, Annual Editions, American Government, Spring 2019-Present. Editorial Board, International Journal of Political Science & Diplomacy, December 2015-Present. Member, Pi Sigma Alpha Executive Council, Fall 2016-Spring 2020. Campaign Analyst, PolitiFact, Maine Second Congressional District, September -November 2020. Campaign Analyst, PolitiFact, Maine Second Congressional District, September -November 2018. Member, American Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association, Southern Political Science Association, New England Political Science Association, Northeastern Political Science Association, and Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Over 1,600 media interviews since August 2004. Chair of the Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award Committee, Organized Section on Political Organizations and Parties, American Political Science Association, 2011-2012. Chair of the Wildavsky Dissertation Award Committee, Organized Section on Religion and Politics, American Political Science Association, 2008-2009. Member, Maine Ballot Clarity Board, May 2009-January 2011, May 2014-January 2021. Appointed by Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, this board informally advises the Secretary of State on the framing of statewide ballot questions. Researcher, Multi-grant Evaluation in the Area of Campaign Conduct and Improving Elections, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Analysis and Evaluation of the 2002 Campaign for United States Senate in Maine. Manuscript Reviewer for American Journal of Political Science, American Politics Research, American Political Science Review, American Review of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, British Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Congress & the Presidency, Insight Turkey, Journal of Church and State, Journal of Homosexuality, Journal of Politics, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Nature Human Behavior, Party Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Politics and Religion, Political Research Quarterly, Politics, Groups, and Identities, PS: Political Science and Politics, Review of Religious Research, Social Forces, Social Problems, Social Science Journal, Sociological Forum, Sociological Quarterly. Text and Proposal Reviewer for Addison Wesley Longman, Cambridge University Press, CQ Press, De Gruyter, Houghton Mifflin, Lexington Books, Lynne Rienner Publishers, McFarland Publishing, McGraw-Hill, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Pearson Allyn & Bacon Longman, Pearson/Longman, Peter Lang Publishing, Routledge, Sage Publications, Stanford University Press, University Press of Kansas, Westview Press, and W.W. Norton & Company. Faculty Advisory Board, The Cohen Journal, Spring 2014-Present. Judge, National History Day, State of Maine Contest, 91, Orono, ME, 2014, 2015, 2016. Invited Panelist, "The Influence of Social Issues: Religion, Race and Other Divides," The 2012 Election in Comparative and Historical Perspective, The Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, Boston College, Boston, MA, October 19-20, 2012. Discussant, Panel on "Campaigning in 2020," Election in a Time of Crisis, St. Anselm College, Manchester, NH, March 13, 2021. Chair and Discussant, Panel on "Elections and American Political Geography," "Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 7-9, 2019. Chair, Panel on "Partisanship, Ideology and Interests in the US Congress" and Chair and Discussant, Panel on "Race, Difference, and American Electoral Politics," Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, November 10-12, 2016, Boston, MA. Discussant, Panel on "Identity Politics and Public Policy," Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 12-14, 2015. Chair, Panel on "Party Coalitions and Partisan Issue Change," Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, January 11-14, 2012. Discussant, Panel on American Politics: New and Old Media in American Politics, Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Newport, RI, April 23-24, 2010. Discussant, Panel on Political Campaigning by Maines Senators, The United States Senators from Maine: Fifty Years of Influencing the Nation, Colby College, Waterville, ME, October 16, 2009. Chair and Discussant, Panel on Who Goes to Washington?, Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Portland, ME, April 29-30, 2005. Discussant, Panel on Congressional Elections, Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston, MA, November 11-13, 2004. Politics and History Program Chair, Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Portsmouth, NH, April 30-May 1, 2004. Chair, Panel on Aspects of the Separation of Powers: Implications for American Governance, Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Portsmouth, NH, April 30-May 1, 2004. Discussant, Panel on The Political Implications of Religious Context, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 27-31, 2003. 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