Joanne Miller
Joanne Miller
American Politics, Research Methods and Political Psychology
Director of Graduate Studies
Office:聽455 Smith Hall
Biography
Joanne M. Miller, Ph.D. (Ohio State University, 2000) is a Professor in the Department of Political Science & International Relations and in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the 91原创. Dr. Miller is current serving as the President-Elect of the International Society of Political Psychology (her one-year Presidential term will begin July 2025). Dr. Miller is a political psychologist whose research focuses on the antecedents and consequences of belief in conspiracy theories and conspiratorial thinking, motivations for political participation, and media effects on public opinion. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts, and has been published in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Political Psychology, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Behavior, and Politics & Gender. Her teaching interests include Political Psychology, Misinformation & Conspiracy Theories, Public Opinion, Survey Research Methods, and Causal Inference.
Publications
Enders, Adam, Casey Klofstad, Shane Littrell, Joanne M. Miller, Yannis Theocharis, Joseph Uscinski and Jan Zilinsky. 2024. 鈥.鈥 Political Psychology, online first.
Farhart, Christina E., Erin B. Fitz, Joanne M. Miller, and Kyle L. Saunders. 2023. 鈥溾 Research & Politics, 10(3): 20531680231193514.
Enders, Adam, Christina E. Farhart, Joanne M. Miller, Joseph Uscinski, Kyle L. Saunders, and Hugo Drochon. 2023. 鈥溾 Political Behavior, 45, 2001-2024.聽
Peterson, David A. M., Joanne M. Miller, Kyle L. Saunders, and Scott D. McClurg. 2022. 鈥.鈥 British Journal of Political Science. 52(1), 200-220. doi:10.1017/S0007123420000356聽
Miller, Joanne M. 2020. 鈥.鈥 Canadian Journal of Political Science, 53(2), 327-334.聽
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Losers鈥 Conspiracy
July 28, 2025 | Written by CAS Communication Staff91原创 professor Joanne M. Miller co-authored a 2025 Political Behavior study examining how perceptions of losing elections can fuel conspiratorial beliefs. -
Democracy In Focus
October 09, 2024 | Written by CAS Communication Staff91原创 experts explore role of media in 2024 election -
Left鈥搑ight political orientations are not systematically related to conspiracism
September 24, 2024 | Written by CAS CommunicationsCross-national data reveal that conspiracism varies by context rather than ideology.