Jennifer Jerit

 

Dept. of Political Science

Florida State University

531 Bellamy Building

Tallahassee, FL 32306


Office: 850.644.5727

jjerit [at] fsu.edu


Research


My research focuses on issues related to citizen competence. I am working on several projects that examine political knowledge and citizens’ attention to politics, with an emphasis on how different features of media coverage affect learning and news interest. In addition, I have variety of papers that explore elite behavior in the area of political rhetoric.

Background


Associate Professor of Political Science at Florida State University. Ph.D., University of Illinois, 2002. Principle research and teaching interests are in American politics, public opinion, political psychology, political communication, and experimental methodology.