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Dr. Paul M. Kellstedt’s fields of expertise are public opinion and political methodology. Prior to joining the Texas A&M University faculty, he taught at Brown University and the University of Minnesota. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1999), at Nuffield College, University of Oxford (2008), at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (2014), and at Bocconi University (2021).
He is the author of The Mass Media and the Dynamics of American Racial Attitudes (Cambridge, 2003), which won the Goldsmith Book Prize, given by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is the co-author, with Guy Whitten, of The Fundamentals of Political Science Research (Cambridge, 2009, 2013, and 2018), a leading text on research design and statistics for undergraduates. He has published a variety of articles on public opinion and statistical methodology, in outlets such as the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science, Political Analysis, among others. He co-teaches Advanced Time Series Analysis at the ICPSR summer program at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Kellstedt served as Editor of Political Science Research and Methods, the flagship journal of the European Political Science Association, from 2018 to 2023.
Dr. Kellstedt has teaching interests in public opinion, voting behavior, campaigns and elections, research design, econometrics, and time-series analysis.
