Philip Chen, PhD
Associate Professor of Political Science
Hello! I am currently an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Denver. Prior to coming to DU, I taught at Beloit College, did my postdoctoral work at the University of Calgary, and was a visiting assistant professor at Macalester College. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 2015 where I studied American Politics and Political Methodology with a minor in Political Psychology. I study race, ethnicity, gender, partisanship, and personality in political psychology, as well as misinformation, conspiracy theories, political communication, and how voters interpret and react to appeals from politicians and the media. I teach courses on campaigns and elections, race and ethnicity, political polarization, media and politics, political psychology, misinformation and conspiracy theories, and political participation.
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My research appears in Political Behavior, Politics and Gender, Politics, Groups, and Identities, American Politics Research, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, Political Research Quarterly, Personality and Individual Differences, Political Studies, the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties, Frontiers in Political Science, Justice System Journal, the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, the Journal of Political Marketing, and the Canadian Journal of Political Science. My book monograph ("Politicking in the Dark: Narcissism, Psychopathy, and Machiavellianism in Contemporary Democratic Politics", with Julie Blais and Scott Pruysers) is currently under contract with the Cambridge Elements in Political Psychology series.
