Vincent Hutchings | |
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Born | October 17, 1965 |
Academic background | |
Education | San Jose State University (BA) University of California, Los Angeles (MA, PhD) |
Thesis | The dynamics of congressional representation: how citizens monitor legislators in the House and Senate (1998) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Michigan American National Election Studies University of Michigan Institute for Social Research |
Vincent Lamont Hutchings (born October 17,1965) is an American political scientist. He is the Hanes Walton Jr. Collegiate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and a Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research. In 2022,Hutchings was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences.
Hutchings was born on October 17,1965. [1] He completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science at San Jose State University before enrolling at the University of California,Los Angeles for his graduate degrees. [2]
Following his PhD,Hutchings accepted a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Scholarship to conduct research at Yale University from 2000 to 2002. [2] Upon joining the faculty at the University of Michigan,Hutchings published his first book entitled Public Opinion and Democratic Accountability:How Citizens Learn about Politics. [3] In 2004,Hutchings served as co-Principal Investigator of the National Politics Study,a national survey of Whites,Latinos,African Americans,Afro-Caribbeans and Asian Americans. [4] He also received a grant from the National Science Foundation for his project "Elite Communications and Racial Group Conflict in the 21st Century" from 2009 to 2011. [5]
As the 2012 United States presidential election loomed,Hutchings became the University of Michigan's Principal Investigator for the American National Election Study (ANES) for the 2012 election cycle. He was also elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for making "innovative contributions to the areas of public opinion,elections,voting behavior,and African American politics." [6] Following the 2012 election,Hutchings continued to serve as co-principal investigator of the ANES to conduct a series of surveys on political participation and vote choice leading up to the 2016 presidential election. [7] At the same time,Hutchings was named President-Elect of the Midwest Political Science Association in 2016. [8]
Hutchings' work was recognized in 2020 with the Tronstein Award in recognition of "innovative and outstanding teaching of undergraduate students in the University of Michigan Department of Political Science." [9] He was also named the recipient of the University Diversity and Social Transformation Professorship. [10] In 2022,Hutchings received the Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award [11] and was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. [12]
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