Part-Time Lecturer

Jesse Mills is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the University of Southern California.  His dissertation is titled, “Feeling Polarized:  Emotional Partisan Polarization and its Reinforcement Through Campaign Advertising.” He studies American politics with an emphasis in voting behavior and political communication.  He has co-authored a number of papers presented at the APSA and ISPP annual meetings, and was selected as the 2006-2007 outstanding teaching assistant in the political science department at USC.  Jesse will be teaching Introduction to American Politics, Polls and Elections and Empirical Approaches to Politics this coming year.