Lynn Vavreck

Vavreck is a high profile and productive scholar of US political campaigns, elections, and public opinion. She is an acclaimed teacher, an outstanding mentor, and an important provider of public goods both at UCLA and in the discipline of political science. She is a leader in the development and vetting of new data gathering techniques that are transforming survey research, and a major source of intellectual energy behind large cooperative data gathering projects. She is a visible and effective spokesperson for political science: her recurring columns for the New York Times as well as other media appearances and writing have elevated popular discussion of campaigns, and injected analysis grounded in data into the narratives that shape conventional wisdom about American politics.