Jennifer Merolla is an Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Politics and Policy at Claremont Graduate University. She received her B.A. from Boston College in 1997 and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University in 2003. Her research focuses on the political behavior of citizens. She and her collaborator, Elizabeth Zechmeister, recently published a book entitled Democracy at Risk: How Terrorist Threats Affect the Public with the University of Chicago Press. The book examines how worry about terrorism alters citizen attitudes toward politics, their evaluations of political leaders, and the choices they make in the voting booth. She also has several projects that look at the effect of campaign messages on different segments of the electorate such as Latinos, minor party supporters, and evangelicals. Her work has appeared in many political science journals such as Electoral Studies, the Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Public Choice, the Canadian Journal of Political Science, and Women, Politics, and Policy.

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