Curriculum Vitae

Appointments, education, honors, service, and the full publication record.

Appointments

Jan 2022 to Present

Professor @ University of Arizona, School of Government and Public Policy · Tucson, AZ
Jan 2020 to Present

Director, The Arizona Voter Project @ University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ

Statewide voter-file research program: registration and turnout histories, partisan change, and public-facing data tools.
Jan 2014 to Jan 2022

Associate Professor @ University of Arizona, School of Government and Public Policy · Tucson, AZ
Jan 2013 to Jan 2014

Assistant Professor @ University of Arizona, School of Government and Public Policy · Tucson, AZ
Jan 2008 to Jan 2013

Assistant Professor @ Louisiana State University, Political Science & Manship School of Mass Communication · Baton Rouge, LA

Douglas L. Manship, Sr. Professorship, 2011--2013.

Education

Sep 2003 to May 2008

Ph.D., Political Science @ Stony Brook University · Stony Brook, NY

M.A., Political Science, 2005.
Sep 1999 to May 2003

B.A., Psychology (Political Science minor) @ University of Minnesota, Twin Cities · Minneapolis, MN

Summa Cum Laude.

Honors, awards, and grants

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona (2024)
Google Cloud Champion Innovator, Development Expert (2023–present)
$600,000 University of Arizona RII Grant — The Arizona Voter Project
Udall Center Fellowship, University of Arizona — course release for Change and Resistance
Douglas L. Manship, Sr. Professorship, LSU (2011–2013)
Manship School Seed Grant (Co-PI): Media Coverage of Female Political Candidates (2010–2011)

Service

2025– ISPP Governing Council
2020–2024 Co-Editor, Political Psychology
2015–2020 Director, ISPP Summer Academy
2020– Director, The Arizona Voter Project
2020– Co-Coordinator, Arizona Policy Lab
2018–2021 Director of Doctoral Studies, SGPP
2016– UA Institutional Review Board Member

Works in progress

Exploring the Changing Nature of Partisan Sorting and Segregation in Arizona — journal manuscript in preparation.
The Contested Vote: Electoral Contestation and the Future of American Democracy (with Carlisle, Karpowitz, Neuner, Ramirez) — book manuscript in preparation.
A Review of the Cross-Lagged Panel Regression Model (with Panish, Zheng, Feldman) — journal manuscript in preparation.

Publications

with abstracts →

2019 Christopher Weber, Samara Klar, . Why Are We Divided? Understanding the Social and Ideological Foundations of Partisan Sorting and Polarization . Advances in Political Psychology
2014 Christopher Weber, Howard Lavine, Leonie Huddy, Christopher M. Federico, . Placing Racial Stereotypes in Context: Social Desirability and the Politics of Racial Hostility . American Journal of Political Science
2013 Christopher Weber, Christopher M. Federico, . Moral Foundations and Heterogeneity in Ideological Preferences . Political Psychology
2013 Christopher Weber, . Emotions, Campaigns, and Political Participation . Political Research Quarterly
2024 Stanley Feldman, Christopher Weber, . Authoritarianism and Political Conflict . The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology
2016 Samara Klar, Christopher Weber, Yanna Krupnikov, . Social Desirability Bias in the 2016 Presidential Election . The Forum
2015 Matthew Lebo, Christopher Weber, . An Effective Approach to the Repeated Cross-Sectional Design . American Journal of Political Science
2013 Christopher M. Federico, Christopher Weber, Damla Ergun, Corrie Hunt, . Mapping the Connections between Politics and Morality: The Multiple Sociopolitical Orientations Involved in Moral Intuition . Political Psychology
2026 Christopher M. Federico, Stanley Feldman, Christopher Weber, . The Authoritarian Divide: Partisan Identity, Voting, and the Transformation of the American Electorate . Series in Political Psychology
2019 Nicholas T. Davis, Samara Klar, Christopher Weber, . Affective Consistency and Sorting . Social Science Quarterly
2019 Christopher Weber, . Ideology and Values . Oxford Encyclopedia of Political Decision Making
2011 Christopher Weber, Martin Johnson, Kevin Arceneaux, . Genetics, Personality, and Group Identity . Social Science Quarterly
2007 Christopher Weber, Christopher M. Federico, . Interpersonal Attachment and Patterns of Ideological Belief . Political Psychology
2017 Christopher Kenny, Christopher Weber, Kathleen Bratton, . The Characteristics of Interpersonal Networks in Disaster Response . Social Science Quarterly
2011 Erin Cassese, Christopher Weber, . Emotion, Attribution, and Attitudes Towards Crime . Journal of Integrated Social Sciences
2009 Todd K. Hartman, Christopher Weber, . Who Said What? The Effects of Source Cues in Issue Frames . Political Behavior
2023 Paul Schuler, Mai Truong, Christopher Weber, . Ideology in Vietnam: Evidence from Asian Barometer Data . 20th Anniversary of the ABS, Commemorative Volume
2007 Leonie Huddy, Stanley Feldman, Christopher Weber, . The Political Consequences of Perceived Threat and Felt Insecurity . The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
2006 Milton Lodge, Charles Taber, Christopher Weber, . First Steps Towards a Dual-Process Accessibility Model of Political Beliefs, Attitudes, and Behavior . Feeling Politics
2013 Erin Cassese, Leonie Huddy, Todd Hartman, Lilliana Mason, Christopher Weber, . Socially-Mediated Internet Surveys (SMIS): Recruiting Participants for Online Experiments . PS: Political Science & Politics

Technology and skills

Computation & web — R, Python, JavaScript
Data warehousing — Google BigQuery, SQL
Machine learning — TensorFlow / Keras — vote-behavior models
Geospatial — Google Maps API, geocoding, choropleths
Cloud — Google Cloud Platform, encrypted storage
Visualization — D3, Tableau, Shiny, Looker

Recent media

The Science of Politics — How Authoritarian Parenting Attitudes Explain our Partisan Divide
AZ Central / Arizona Republic — 2024 Arizona voter-turnout election forecast
The New York Times (with Samara Klar) — Why Would a Republican Vote Biden? Ask Arizonans — Op-ed
Washington Post: Monkey Cage — How Authoritarianism is Shaping American Politics (and it's not just about Trump)
C-SPAN Washington Journal — Live panelist
The Atlantic — Expert interview