Sunshine Hillygus

Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, director of the Initiative on Survey Methodology, and co-director of the Polarization Lab at Duke University

D. Sunshine Hillygus is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, director of the Initiative on Survey Methodology, and co-director of the Polarization Lab at Duke University. Professor Hillygus has published widely on the topics of American public opinion, campaigns and elections, survey methodology, and information technology and politics. She is co-author of Making Young Voters: Converting Civic Attitudes into Civic Action (forthcoming at Cambridge University Press), The Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues in Political Campaigns (Princeton University Press, 2008), and The Hard Count: The Social and Political Challenges of the 2000 Census (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006). Hillygus is a 2024 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.