I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the United States Naval Academy, where I teach courses on American constitutional development, media and politics, and race, gender, class, and sexuality in U.S. politics.
My research agenda is three-pronged . I study how the American public forms opinions related to social problems in the United States (e.g. drug use and addiction and racial discrimination) as a result of their social identities, media representations, and personal experience with these issues. I examine how these understandings emerge in the general public as well as how these same dynamics manifest and affect teaching and learning in the university classroom.
Prior to joining the USNA faculty, I was a Vice Provost Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. I still serve as a fellow with the Penn Program on Public Opinion Research and Election Studies.
I received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Vanderbilt University. I also received a M.A. in Political Science from Brown University and a B.A. in Government from Smith College.
I can be contacted at harbin at usna dot edu
My research agenda is three-pronged . I study how the American public forms opinions related to social problems in the United States (e.g. drug use and addiction and racial discrimination) as a result of their social identities, media representations, and personal experience with these issues. I examine how these understandings emerge in the general public as well as how these same dynamics manifest and affect teaching and learning in the university classroom.
Prior to joining the USNA faculty, I was a Vice Provost Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. I still serve as a fellow with the Penn Program on Public Opinion Research and Election Studies.
I received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Vanderbilt University. I also received a M.A. in Political Science from Brown University and a B.A. in Government from Smith College.
I can be contacted at harbin at usna dot edu