Jon Hurwitz, Ph.D.

  • Professor, Department of Political Science (Secondary appointment in Department of Psychology)

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Accepting Graduate Students: No

Graduate Student Advisees:

  • Jarrod Kelly
  • Eric Loepp
  • Brandon Myers
  • Reynaldo Rojo Mendoza

Education & Training

  • Ph. D., University of Minnesota (1984)

Research Interests

American politics; public opinion; political belief systems and ideologies; political psychology; racial politics; race and the criminal justice system.

Representative Publications

Explaining the Great Racial Divide: Perceptions of Fairness in the U.S. Criminal Justice System,å with M. Peffley. 2005. The Journal of Politics, 67 (August): 762-83.

Playing the Race Card in the Post-Willie Horton Era: The Impact of Racialized Code Words on Support for Punitive Crime Policy,å with M. Peffley. 2005. Public Opinion Quarterly, 69 (Spring): 99-112.

Resistance and Persuasion to Arguments against the Death Penalty among Whites and Blacks,å with M. Peffley. 2007. The American Journal of Political Science, 51 (October): 996-1012.

Crusades and Culture Wars: The Relationship between Fundamentalism and Foreign Policy Belief Systems,å with D. Barker and T. Nelson. 2008. The Journal of Politics, 70 (April): 307-22.

Racial Stereotyping and Political Attitudes: The View from Political Science,å with M. Peffley. 2009. In E. Borgida, C. Federico, and J. Sullivan (Eds.), The Political Psychology of Democratic Citizenship. New York: Oxford University Press.

And Justice for Some: Race, Crime, and Punishment in the U.S. Criminal Justice System.å 2010. Canadian Journal of Political Science, 43 (June): 457-79.

Examining the Terror Exception: Terrorism and Commitments to Civil Liberties,å with J. Mondak. 2012. Public Opinion Quarterly, 76 (2): 193-213.

Perception and Prejudice: Race and Politics in the United States. With M.A. Peffley (Eds.). 1998. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Justice in America: The Separate Realities of Blacks and Whites. With M.A. Peffley. 2010. New York: Cambridge University Press.