Brendan Nyhan - Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research, University of Michigan

I am a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan. I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Duke University in May 2009. In 2011, I will join the Department of Government at Dartmouth College as an assistant professor.

My research focuses on the underlying causes of presidential scandal and the persistence of political misperceptions. I also conduct research on social networks and applied statistical methods. (My publications and working papers are listed below; see my CV for more.)

From 2001-2004, Ben Fritz, Bryan Keefer, and I edited Spinsanity, a non-partisan watchdog of political spin that was syndicated in Salon and the Philadelphia Inquirer. In 2004, we published All the President's Spin, a New York Times bestseller that Amazon.com named one of the ten best political books of the year. I currently blog at brendan-nyhan.com.

Previously, I was a marketing and fundraising consultant for Benetech, a Silicon Valley technology nonprofit, and Deputy Communications Director of the Bernstein for US Senate campaign in Nevada. I grew up in Mountain View, CA and attended Swarthmore College. My family and I currently live in Ann Arbor, MI.