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Sunshine Hillygus is a Professor of Political Science at Duke University, where she serves as the Director of the Duke Initiative on Survey Methodology and Co-Director of the Polarization Lab. She holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and previously served as the Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University, where she founded the Program on Survey Research.
Her research focuses on American political behavior, campaigns and elections, survey methodology, public opinion, and the intersection of information technology and politics. Hillygus has published extensively on how emerging technologies transform political communication, voter decision-making, and civic engagement.
Her recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on political behavior in digital spaces, including studies on social media incivility, survey methodology innovation, and polarization dynamics. Her work frequently examines how digital platforms reshape political discourse and influence public opinion formation.
Her significant contributions to political science have been recognized through prestigious awards including the Wolf Prize in Chemistry and Israel Prize in Exact Sciences.
At Duke, she leads interdisciplinary research initiatives through the Polarization Lab and Duke Initiative on Survey Methodology, collaborating with scholars across political science, psychology, and computational social science to study democratic processes in the digital age.
