Alexa Bankert

PhD, Stony Brook University, Political Science, 2016

BA, Freie Universität Berlin, Political Science, 2011

• Political Psychology
• American and Comparative Political Behavior
• Experimental Methods
• Quantitative Survey Methods
• Public Opinion

• Institute for Humane Studies Research Grant, Spring 2026 (with Geoff Sheagley, Sangdo Lee, and Eun Yoo Lee)
• SPIA Excellence in Research Award, Spring 2025
• Nominee for UGA’s Creative Research Medal, Fall 2024
• Institute for Humane Studies Research Grant, Fall 2024
• Susette Talarico Award for Excellence In Teaching, 2022
• Milton Lodge Award for Outstanding Research Potential, Department of Political Science, Stony
  Brook University, 2015
• Distinguished Junior Scholars Award given by the Political Psychology Section of the American
  Political Science Association, 2015
• American Political Science Association Travel Grant, 2015
• NSF Travel Grant for attending the Society of Political Methodology Summer Meeting, 2015
• American Association for Public Opinion Research Student Travel Award, 2015
• International Society of Political Psychology Summer Academy Fellow, 2014
• Janet Box-Steffensmeier Award for Outstanding Female Graduate Students in Methodology, 2013
• Prestage-Cook Travel Award, Southern Political Science Association, 2013
• Ernst Reuter Scholarship for Excellent Academic Achievements, 2009
• Fulbright Travel Grant, 2009
• Freie Universität Direct Exchange Scholarship, 2008
• Friedrich Naumann Scholarship for Outstanding Students, 2008 – 2011

• POLS 1101 Introduction to American Government
• POLS 4790 Special Topics: Political Psychology

• American and comparative political behavior
• political psychology
• experimental methods

Alexa Bankert and Josh Zingher. “Partisan Hearts, Polarized Minds? Revisiting the Relationship Between Partisanship and Polarization” Accepted at Political Research Quarterly.

Alexa Bankert. “The Personality Origins of Positive and Negative Partisanship” Politics and
Governance 10 (2022).

Alexa Bankert. “Negative Partisanship among Independents in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections” Electoral Studies 78 (2022).

Alexa Bankert, Ryan Powers, and Geoff Sheagley. “Trade Politics at the Checkout Lane –
Ethnocentrism and Consumer Preferences” Political Science Research and Methods (2022).

Alexa Bankert, Alessandro Del Ponte, and Leonie Huddy.“Partisanship in Times of Crisis –
Evidence from Italy” Political Science Research and Methods 11 (2022).

Alexa Bankert. “Reflections on the Past and Present of Research on Partisan Identity” The
Forum 19 (2021), 459-480.

Alexa Bankert.“Lets Talk About Sexism – The Differential Effects of Gender Discrimination on
Liberal and Conservative Women’s Political Engagement” American Politics Research 48 (2020).

• Featured in Salon: “Conservative Women Often Don’t Perceive Sexism as a Social Problem.
Here’s Why”
• Featured in PsyPost: “The Impact of Sexism on Womens Political Behavior Differs Based
on Their Ideology”
• Featured in The Albany Herald: “Study: Liberal, Conservative Women React Differently
to Gender Discrimination”
Alexa Bankert. “Negative and Positive Partisanship in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections”
Political Behavior 43 (2020).

Julie Wronski*, Alexa Bankert*, April Johnson, Karyn Amira, and Lindsey Levitan. “A Tale of
Two Democrats – How Authoritarianism Divides the Democratic Party” The Journal of Politics
80 (2018). (* shared first authorship)

Alexa Bankert, Leonie Huddy, and Martin Rosema. “Measuring Partisanship as a Social Identity in Multi-Party Systems.” Forthcoming at Political Behavior.

Alexa Bankert, and Helmut Norpoth (2013). “Guns N Jobs -The FDR Legacy.” Electoral Studies, 32(3): 551 – 556.

Benjamin J. Newman, Yamil Velez, Todd K. Hartman, and Alexa Bankert (2015). “Are Citizens Receiving the Treatment? Assessing a Key Link in Contextual Theories of Public Opinion and Political Behavior.” Political Psychology, 36: 123-131.