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Matthew Ward serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and Global Citizenship at Baldwin Wallace University, teaching courses in comparative politics including Middle Eastern politics, democracy and democratic erosion, extremism and radicalization, and research methodology. He joined Baldwin Wallace in fall 2022 after holding a Visiting Assistant Professor position in World Politics at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
His academic credentials include:
- Ph.D. in Comparative Politics, University of Houston
- M.A. in Comparative Politics, University of Houston
- B.A., University of Michigan
Ward's research centers on anti-democratic threats to democratic institutions, examining how threat perception drives radicalization and political violence through intergroup relations and identity politics frameworks. He specializes in survey experiments and advanced statistical methods while maintaining fluency in Arabic and French. His scholarly work spans political psychology, democratic resilience, and methodological innovations in experimental design.
His publications demonstrate interdisciplinary reach across political science subfields including algorithmic governance, judicial representation dynamics, electoral technology impacts, and terrorist targeting mechanisms. These works collectively investigate institutional trust, identity-based political behavior, and security challenges to democratic systems using experimental methodologies.
