Eitan Hersh | Source | Professor, Political Science at Tufts University
Eitan Hersh
Eitan Hersh is a professor of political science at Tufts University. His research focuses on US elections and civic participation. Hersh is the author of Politics is for Power (Scribner, 2020), Hacking the Electorate (Cambridge UP 2015), as well as scholarly articles. Hersh earned his PhD from Harvard in 2011 and served as assistant professor of political science at Yale University from 2011-2017. His public writings have appeared in venues such as the New York Times, USA Today, The Atlantic, POLITICO, and the Boston Globe. Hersh regularly testifies in voting rights court cases and has testified to the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary about the role of data analytics in political campaigns.
In addition to work on elections and civic engagement, Hersh has written on topics ranging from antisemitism and the political consequences of terrorist attacks to politicization in health care delivery and the opioid crisis. His next book is about the civic role of business leaders.
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Tufts University (https://www.tufts.edu/)
Professor, Political Science
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A Radical Experiment at Tufts
On one of America's most liberal college campuses, Professor Eitan Hersh and a class of undergrads embarked on a mission to understand conservative thought. Here's what happened.
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The continued polarization over Israel on college campuses - The Boston Globe
Perhaps the most important thing colleges can do is to help students figure out how to get along with people with whom they disagree.
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Survey Reports on Jewish Students’ Experiences at U.S. Colleges
Research shows increasing identification with Jewish roots and unease on college campuses across the country on the part of U.S. college students
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"It would be nice if students who hold different viewpoints could respect each other and get along. However, my study confirms that a significant number of students treat this issue as a social litmus test and isolate those who disagree with them." Eitan Hersh, Boston Globe
