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James Henson is a Professor at the College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin. He serves as the Director of the Texas Politics Project, a non-partisan research and public affairs initiative focused on Texas government and politics. Henson co-founded the longest-running academic survey of public opinion in Texas in 2008 and has authored the widely used Texas Politics textbook (12th edition), while also hosting the project's Second Reading podcast since 2016.
- Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
- Teaching: Instructs GOV 310L: American and Texas Government and GOV 374N: Political Internship since at least 2021.
His research focuses on political science, with an emphasis on public opinion polling and media analysis in Texas politics. He has contributed to major media outlets including The Washington Post, The Hill, and Texas Monthly, and serves on the advisory board of The Subiendo Academy at McCombs School of Business, UT-Austin.
Henson's academic work spans ethnic media representation, historical political economy in Latin America, and state-society relations in early 20th-century Mexico. His publications analyze intersections of race, ideology, and international business interests in post-revolutionary contexts.
He maintains offices in MEZ 2.302E and holds regular public polling data archives from over 15 years of Texas Politics Project surveys, with methodologies involving YouGov's proximity-matched sampling of 20,000+ Texas residents.
