Curriculum Vitae

Joshua L. Meyer-Gutbrod

Office: 342 Gambrell Hall Website: http://joshua-meyer-gutbrod.weebly.com/

Mailing: Department of Political Science, Website 2:
University of South Carolina http://digitalcampaignsproject.uofsccreate.org/
342 Gambrell Hall Phone: (913) 702-5643
817 Henderson Street E-mail: meyerguj@mailbox.sc.edu
Contact:
Columbia, SC 29208-4114

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Teaching Faculty 2020-Current

Department of Political Science
University of South Carolina
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Science Foundation 2018-2020
University of California, Santa Barbara
Funded by the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Research Scholar, Center for Information, Technology, and Society 2018-2020
University of California, Santa Barbara

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Cornell University, Department of Government August 2018

American Politics
Committee: Suzanne Mettler (Chair), David Bateman (Co-Chair), Jamila Michener
B.S. University of Notre Dame, Department of Political Science 2008
Dual major: Political Science, Philosophy

RESEARCH INTERESTS

American federalism and the decentralization of public policy

Effects of partisan polarization on policy implementation
State-level variation in partisan issue selection for gubernatorial and legislative campaigns

PUBLICATIONS

Published
Meyer-Gutbrod, Joshua. "Preaching to the Choir or Proselytizing to the Opposition: Examining the Use of
Campaign Websites in State Legislative Elections." State Politics & Policy Quarterly (2023): 1-21.
Meyer-Gutbrod, Joshua, and John Woolley. "New conflicts in the briefing room: Using sentiment analysis to
evaluate administration-press relations from Clinton through Trump." Political Communication 38.3
(2021): 241-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2020.1763527
Meyer-Gutbrod, J., 2019. Between National Polarization and Local Ideology: The Impact of Partisan
Competition on State Medicaid Expansion Decisions . Publius: The Journal of Federalism.
https://doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjz028

Under Review
Meyer-Gutbrod, Joshua L. Same Party, Different Rhetoric: Assessing Patterns of Nationalization in State
Legislative Campaign Content Using Campaign Websites”
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Working Papers
Meyer-Gutbrod, Joshua L., and Daniel Gomez “Negative Partisanship or Regional Prejudice: Measuring the
Impact of Geographic Bias on Partisan Polarization Among Citizens”

Meyer-Gutbrod, Joshua L., and Ewan Thompson “Confronting the Glass Half Full: Assessing the
Predominance of Economic and Social Negativity in State Legislative Campaigns”

Meyer-Gutbrod, Joshua L., and Rachael Erickson“It is Only a Crisis if it is Fit to Print: Examining the
Relationship Between Overdose Rates, News Coverage, and the Salience of the Opioid Crisis in State
Legislative Campaigns”

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

McCausland Innovation Fund ($45000) 2022-2025

College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Research and Creative Scholarship Grant ($9000) 2021-2022
South Carolina Honors College Research Grant ($12000) 2022
South Carolina Honors College Research Grant ($6000) 2021
National Science Foundation, Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship ($138,000) 2018, 2019
UCSB Center for Information Technology and Society Research Grant ($500) 2018
Sage Fellowship; Cornell University ($120,000) 2013, 2017
Meigs American Politics Research Grant, Cornell University ($3,000) 2016
Herbert I. Flournoy Fellowship, Cornell University (w/ Jamila Michener) ($2,000) 2015

DATA PROJECTS

Digital Campaigns Project: Archive of state legislative campaign websites from 2014-2019. Texts
archives of lower chamber campaign websites in 2014, and 2016, and lower and upper chambers in
2018 and 2019. 2018 data is collected and stored on a public repository, including images, in
collaboration with Archive-It.org.
Geographic Knowledge and Partisan Bias (with Daniel Gomez): Digital survey (launched February
13, 2020) assessing the use of geographic knowledge as a heuristic for partisan knowledge and
negative partisanship.

MENTORING

Senior Thesis

Dedmon, Sean, “Monuments Of Folly: The Persistence Of He Lost Cause At The University Of South
Carolina”, Advisor, Completed - May 2022

Eberlin, Virginia, “Conceptions in Credibility: An Exploration of the Influence of Familiarity in the 2022
American Midterm Election”, Advisor, Proposed Completion, May 2023

Erickson, Rachael, “Exploring the Shifting Salience and Rhetoric of Opioid Abuse in the United States
through News, Campaigns, and Policy Changes”, Advisor, Proposed Completion – May 2023
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Undergraduate Research

Undergraduate Research Mentor, UofSC 2021-2023

Mentor 8 undergraduate students in data collection and data processing. Included
instruction in policy categorization and data carpentry in R with a required research
project.
Projects:
• “Examining the Impact of Nationalized Media Rhetoric on State Legislative
Campaigns Through Non-Structured Text Analysis”
• “Exploring the Impact of Geographic Proximity of Black Lives Matter on State
Legislative Campaigns”
• “Running Against the Nation or Running Against the State: Going Negative In
State Campaigns Relative To National And State-Level Partisan Control”
• “Exploring Gendered Rhetoric in State Legislative Campaigns During the Trump
Presidency”
Undergraduate Research Mentor, UCSB 2018-2019
Mentor 5 undergraduate students in data collection and data processing. Included
instruction in policy categorization and data carpentry in R with an optional research
project.
Projects:
Labor Union Rhetoric in the States after Janus vs. AFSCME
Undergraduate Research Mentor, Cornell University 2015-2016
Mentor 8 undergraduate students in data collection and data processing. Included
instruction in policy categorization and state politics.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Southern Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, St. Petes Beach, FL., 2023
To Polarize or to Moderate: Using Campaign Ideology Scores to Examine the Impact of Polarized National
Rhetoric on State Legislative Campaigns
American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., 2019
Running Against the Grain: Measuring Partisan Rhetoric in State-Level Campaigns
State Politics and Policy Conference, State College, PA, 2018
Challenging Washington Through Legislation: Examining State Response to Federal Mandate
Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, 2017
Polarized Devolution and the Complexities of State Response: Investigating Medicaid Expansion under
the Affordable Care Act
American Political Science Association, Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA 2016
Unpopular Policy, Devolution and American Federalism in an Age of Polarization
Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL 2015
Party Brand or Policy Substance: Campaigning on the Affordable Care Act at the State Level
Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL 2014
Measuring the Effects of Partisan Imbalance and Professionalization on Competition in State
Legislative Elections
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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Instructional Training
Certificate in Teaching Towards Inclusive Excellence 2022
Certificate in Integrative and Experiential Learning (University of South Carolina) 2022
Certificate in Entering Mentoring (University of South Carolina) 2023
Instructor of Record
Government Affairs Internship/State Government Internship 2023
American National Politics (University of South Carolina) 2020,2021,2022
Congress and the Presidency (University of South Carolina) 2020,2021,2022
American Chief Executive (University of South Carolina) 2021,2022
State Government (University of South Carolina) 2022
Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations (University of South Carolina) 2021
American Political Parties and Polarization (UC Santa Barbara) 2020
Introduction to American Politics (UC Santa Barbara) 2019
Introduction to Research Methods in Political Science (UC Santa Barbara) 2018
Marx, Nietzsche, Freud (Cornell University) 2016 - 2017
Politics in Whoville: U.S. Politics in Children’s Literature (Cornell University) 2016

Teaching Assistant-Cornell University:

Introduction to Western Political Thought (Distance Learning) with Dr. Isaac Kramnick 2016 - 2017
American Political Campaigns with Dr. Adam Levine 2015
Introduction to Western Political Thought with Dr. Isaac Kramnick 2015
Introduction to American Politics with Dr. Suzanne Mettler 2014
Taking America’s Pulse: Creating and Conducting National Opinion Poll with Dr. Peter Enns 2014
Social Movements in American Politics with Dr. Elizabeth Sanders 2013

Invited Talks:
University of South Carolina, Department of Political Science 2020
Running Against the Grain: Examining Variation in State-Level Partisan in Rhetoric
Guest Lectures:
Gateway Technology and Society Colloquium: Online Hate at UCSB 2019
Polarization, Negative Partisanship, and Hate Speech
Intergovernmental Relations at UCSB 2019
Federalism: A History of Conflict
State FOIA and Open Meetings Laws in the Digital Age
Macaulay Honors College of City University of New York, at Hunter College 2016
Political Science and Election 2016: What we got wrong and What we got right
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND SERVICE

Referee for:
Publius: The Journal of Federalism
Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties
Journal of Public Policy
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State Politics and Policy Quarterly

UCSB, American Politics Working Group - Coordinator 2018-2019
Cornell University American Politics Working Group - Coordinator 2017
Taking America’s Pulse National Opinion Poll, Graduate Student Coordinator 2013
Nonprofit Program Editor and Manager: Lucy Burns Institute & WikiFOIA 2009 - 2013
National Freedom of Information Coalition Conference 2010

SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE

Programming languages:
R, Python & Regular expressions, HTML, STATA, Wiki syntax, Javascript

MEMBERSHIPS

American Political Science Association, Southern Political Science Association,