Bethany Albertson is an Associate Professor in the Government Department at UT Austin. She received her PhD in political science and a graduate certificate in social psychology from the University of Chicago. She was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University and a Harrington Faculty Fellow at UT Austin. She is a political psychologist and her research interests include American public opinion, emotion, and experimental methods. Her book, Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World, was co-authored with Shana Kushner Gadarian and was published by Cambridge. Anxious Politics was awarded the 2016 Robert E. Lane Award for best book in political psychology and the 2021 Doris Graber Award for the best book in the political communication in the past decade, both through APSA. At University of Texas she has received the Josephina Paredes Endowed Teaching Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching and the PresidentÂ’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award. She is currently the faculty director for the Archer Fellowship Program.
Ph.D.
in Political Science, University of Chicago, 2006
M.A.
in Social Science, University of Chicago, 2001
B.A.
in Political Science, Loyola Marymount University, 1999
Bethany Albertson is an Associate Professor in the Government Department at UT Austin. She received her PhD in political science and a graduate certificate in social psychology from the University of Chicago. She is a political psychologist and her research interests include American public opinion, emotion, and experimental methods. She researches and writes on elections, democratic norms, and campaigns.
Member,
Awards Committee, American Political Science Association, Experimental Methods Section (2011)
Member,
Junior Scholars Committee, International Society for Political Psychology (2009)
Member,
Editorial Board, American Politics Research ( - Present)
Member,
Editorial Board, Politics, Groups & Identities ( - Present)
Reviewer,
National Science Foundation, American Journal of Political Science, American Politics Research, American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Political Research Quarterly, Political Science and Politic ( - Present)
Donald D. Harrington Fellow
- Donald D. Harrington Fellows Program (2014)
Josefina Paredes Endowed Teaching Award
- The College of Liberal Arts (2014)
Time Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences
- National Science Foundation (2010)
