| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Monday, November 16, 2020 | 2:00PM - 3:00PM | Online Event, Online |
Agenda 2020: Making Sense of the American Election
The tumultuous presidency of Donald Trump is at an end. What helped Joe Biden defeat him, and what does the 2020 election portend for the future of American politics?
John Sides is Professor of Political Science and William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair at Vanderbilt University. He studies political behavior in American and comparative politics.
He is an author of Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and The Battle for the Meaning of America, The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Election and Campaigns and Election: Rules, Reality, Strategy, Choice.
He has published articles in various scholarly journals, including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Politics.
He helped found and serves as Publisher of The Monkey Cage, a site about political science and politics at the Washington Post. He has also written for such outlets as FiveThirtyEight, the Boston Review, Bloomberg View, CNN, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times. He also serves as Research Advisor to the Democracy Fund Voter Study Group.
He received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He previously taught at the University of Texas-Austin and George Washington University.
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