Associate Professor
Department of Government
Office: BAT 4.124
E-mail: balberts@austin.utexas.edu
I am a political psychologist and received my PhD from the University of Chicago. Prior to coming to UT, I was on faculty at the University of Washington and was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University.
At UT, I have been a Donald D. Harrington Fellow, and in 2014, I was awarded the Josefina Paredes Endowed Teaching Award, in recognition for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
My book, Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2015 and was co-authored with Shana Gadarian of Syracuse University. We were co-winners of the 2016 Robert E. Lane Award, Political Psychology Section from the American Political Science Association.
My work explores political attitudes and persuasion. I am particularly interested in emotion, religion in American politics and experimental methods.