Description: Assistant Professor of Government and Politics, Millsaps College
Political Science Teaching Fellow, Concordia College
Welcome! I’m Dr. Eric R. Schmidt. In July 2021, I received my Ph.D from Indiana University; at present, I’m a Political Science Teaching Fellow at Concordia College . As a scholar of long-term partisan change in the United States, my work explores the (complex and interconnected) dynamics of partisanship, ideology, and group attachments. As a teacher, I seek not just to teach American politics — but also to train students to constructively assess their responsibilities as democratic citizens. And as a parti
My research has been supported by an IU College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Research Fellowship (2019-2020), and multiple competitive grants from IU’s Center on American Politics; and my work has been published in Political Behavior , P.S.: Political Science & Politics , Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy , and (forthcoming) The Palgrave Handbook of Populism. At IU, I trained undergraduates in high-impact research design through the Indiana Political Analysis Workshop ; served as