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Philip Converse Collegiate Professor

• Affiliation(s)

  • Research Professor, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research
  • Professor, Psychology

• Fields of Study

  • American Government and Politics
  • Research Methods
  • Race Ethnicity and Politics
  • Political Psychology

• About

  Professor Kinder is working on papers comparing explicit and implicit forms of prejudice and their consequences for contemporary American political life (with Tim Ryan); a short book on the misunderstanding of ideology in the study of American politics (with Nathan Kalmoe); a longer book on gender and race as alternative forms for political organization (with Nancy Burns); and a very long book on the transformation of racial politics in the United States since Myrdal.  

• Education

  • UCLA, PhD (Psychology)
  • Stanford University, BA (Psychology)

• Awards

  • Warren E. Miller Award from the American Political Science Association (2012)
  • Collegiate Professorship, University of Michigan (1997-present)
  • Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993-present)
  • Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation (1990-1991)
  • Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1986-1987)

• Grants

  • Carnegie Foundation
  • Russel Sage Foundation (2)
  • National Science Foundation (9)

• Courses Taught

  • Graduate Seminar in Research Design (PS680)
  • Graduate Seminar in Public Opinion (PS686)
  • Undergraduate course on public opinion and American Democracy (PS486)

• Selected Publications:

• Books

  • (2012) The End of Race? Obama, 2008 and Racial Politics in America
  • (2009) Us Against Them: Ethnocentric Foundations of American Opinion

• Articles

  • Exploring the Racial Divide, American Journal of Political Science
  • Ethnocentrism as a Short-Term Force in the 2008 American Presidential Election, American Journal of Political Science