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S COTT L . A LTHAUS Cline Center for Democracy
University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign
2001 South First St., Suite 207
Champaign, IL 61820‐7461

Office: 217.265.7879
Fax: [phone]
E‐mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.illinois.edu/~salthaus

CURRENT POSITIONS
Charles J. and Ethel S. Merriam Professor in Political Science, and Professor of Communication,
University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign (2014‐present).
Director of the Cline Center for Democracy, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign (2014‐ present) PAST POSITIONS
Professor, Department of Political Science and Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign (2012‐present).
Associate Director of the Cline Center for Democracy, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign
(2011‐2014)
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Department of Communication,
University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign (2003‐2012).
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Department of Political Science,
University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign (1996‐2003).
EDUCATION
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Ph.D. in Political Science with certificate in Political Communication, December 1996.
M.A. in Political Science, June 1993.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
B.A. in Rhetoric with honors, May 1991. Departmental honors, Phi Beta Kappa.
BOOKS
Althaus, Scott. Forthcoming. Time in the Fight: Understanding Popular Support for America’s Wars.
Under contract with Cambridge University Press.
Althaus, Scott. 2003. Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics: Opinion Surveys and the Will of the
People. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Awarded a 2004 Goldsmith Book Prize by the
Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and the
2004 David Easton Prize by the Foundations of Political Theory Section of the American
Political Science Association)
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