Gwyneth H McClendon
I am Associate Professor in the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University. During the 2021-2022 academic year, I am a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. My research agendas are in the areas of political psychology, religious and ethnic politics, identity, and political participation.
I have done research in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa and in the United States. I am a founder of the Identities & Ideologies Project at NYU. My first book, Envy in Politics (Princeton University Press, 2018), examines how people's desires for high within-group status can influence their political behavior; it won the Robert Lane Best Book Award from the APSA Political Psychology Section. My second book, From Pews to Politics (co-authored with Rachel Riedl, Cambridge University Press, 2019), examines how exposure to religious ideas can influence whether and how people participate in politics; it was a finalist for the Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize.
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