Ann Crigler
Professor
Chair, Department of Political Science
Ph.D., MIT
Specialization: Political Communication, Public Opinion, Research Methods, Presidential Election
Phone: (213) 740-8964
Fax: (213) 740-3167
VKC 232
acrigler@usc.edu
College Faculty Website
Biography:
Ann N. Crigler Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at USC. She received her B.A. with honors from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before joining the faculty at USC, she taught at Tufts University, Wellesley College, and M.I.T.
She is currently working on two research projects: one is a study of emotions, political participation and the media in presidential campaigns; and another analyses the institutional attitudinal foundations of civic engagement in Los Angles. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Professor Crigler's research examines how people understand and learn about politics from the news media. She has co-authored several publications on this subject including three books entitled Common Knowledge: News and the Construction of Political Meaning with W.R. Neuman and M. Just (University of Chicago Press, 1992); an edited volume, The Psychology of Political Communication (University of Michigan Press, 1996), and a co-authored book on media and the 1992 presidential campaign entitled Crosstalk: Citizens, Candidates and the Media in a Presidential Campaign with M. Just, D. Alger, T. Cook, M. Kern and D. West (University of Chicago Press, 1996). She is currently working on a study of emotions, political participation and the media in presidential campaign and a study of television news across the United States. These projects are supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Professor Crigler has been interviewed by numerous journalists. She has appeared on the CBS Evening News, C-SPAN, National Public Radio, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation, and in such newspapers as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor, and USA Today.
Recent Publications and Works in Progress:
Following the disputed 2000 election, she co-edited a volume on electoral reform with Manon Just entitled: Rethinking the Vote: The Politics and Prospects of American Election Reform (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Crigler, Ann, Marion Just and Edward J. McCaffery (Eds.) Rethinking the Vote: The Politics and Prospects of American Election Reform. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Gordon, Ann, David Shafie and Ann Crigler. “Is Negative Advertising Effective for Female Candidates? An Experiment in Voters' Uses of Gender Stereotypes.” The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 8 (3), 2003: 35-53.
Gulati, Girish, Marion Just, and Ann Crigler. “News Coverage of Political Campaigns”. In Lynda Lee Kaid (Ed.), Handbook of Political Communication, 2nd ed. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004: 237-256.
The Affect Effect: They Dynamics of emotion in Political Thinking and Behavior edited with George Marcus, Michael MacKuen and W. Russell Neuman (under review).
“Engaging the Global City: Changing Civic Culture, Building Civic Capacity” (with Terry Cooper, Juliet Musso and Chris Weare) (in progress).
“Campaigns Matter: Citizens' Emotions and the Vote” (with Marion Just and Todd Belt) (in progress).
“Measuring the Relationship between Presidential Emotions and Policy Goals: George W. Bush After 9/11” (with Marina Whelan, USC Undergraduate) (in progress).
