Hello! I’m Jen. I am currently a 6th year Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University, specializing in American Politics and Political Methodology. I hold a BA in Quantitative Social Science from Dartmouth College, where I also completed minors in Government and Japanese.

My research uses surveys and text analysis methods to study politician messaging in the United States and how voters perceive their statements. I focus on differences in how Democratic and Republican voters perceive politicians. I am particularly interested in what these differences mean for politician incentives to be uncivil and the consequences of their words.

Affiliations

I am supported by a research assistantship through the Center for Revitalizing American Institutions at the Hoover Institution for my sixth and final year.

Graduate Fellow @ Stanford Research Computing

Center for American Democracy @ Stanford Institute for Research in the Social Sciences

Democracy and Polarization Lab @ Stanford Political Science

If you are looking for Jennifer D. Wu (Assistant Professor at SUNY Binghamton studying race, identity, and behavior in American politics), find her website at jen-wu.com.