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Provost Professor of Political Science and Director of the UMass Amherst Poll, UMass Amherst

Tatishe Nteta is Provost Professor of Political Science and the Director of the UMass Poll at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He received his PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. His research is situated within the subfield of American politics and examines the impact that the sociopolitical incorporation of the nation’s minority population has on public opinion, political behavior, and political campaigns. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, National Public Radio, and Fox News and his work has been published in the Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Political Behavior, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Psychology, Political Communication, and Social Science Quarterly.

Experience

  • –present
    Provost Professor of Political Science and Director of the UMass Amherst Poll, UMass Amherst

Education

  • 2007 
    University of California, Berkeley, PhD/Political Science
  • 1998 
    University of Maryland College Park, B.A./African American Studies and Government and Politics