Moriah Harman

Moriah Harman is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas Tech University, specializing in American politics with a focus on political behavior and psychology. She received her PhD in Political Science from Louisiana State University in 2023.

Her research examines how individual- and structural-level factors shape attitudes, behaviors, and policy preferences, with publications in journals such as Political Behavior, PS: Political Science & Politics, and Journal of Information Warfare. She also co-authored the book African American Coping in the Political Sphere (SUNY Press, 2023).

At Texas Tech, Dr. Harman teaches undergraduate courses including Political Psychology, The Politics of Income Inequality, and Introduction to American Government.

Her recent work spans topics like redistributive policy preferences, media impacts on democracy, gender bias in electoral politics, food insecurity interventions, and computational propaganda mitigation.