Spencer Kiesel

Spencer Kiesel is a Faculty Lecturer at the University of California, Davis, where he teaches courses on legislative behavior and survey research methodologies. His interdisciplinary research focuses on political polarization dynamics, nonreligious identity politics, and vaccine hesitancy mechanisms through advanced survey techniques. He holds a BA in Political Science from Case Western Reserve University.

Research Interests:
• Representation of nonreligious populations in electoral contexts
• Partisan effects on interpersonal decision-making
• Social network analysis of public health communication
• Identity-based perceptual framing mechanisms
• Experimental methodologies in political behavior analysis

Grants & Advising: No specific grants or advisees listed. Active in developing innovative survey instruments for measuring affective polarization.

Labs/Teams: Collaborates with UC Davis's Political Behavior Lab on interdisciplinary projects combining experimental methods with network analysis.