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Karen Callaghan, PhD

Professor, Political Science Department

Texas Southern University 

Dr. Karen Callaghan has a Ph.D. in Political Science (SUNY Stony Brook, 1993). Her research interests are political attitude formation and communication. She is the co-editor of Framing American Politics (University of Pittsburgh Press) and co-author of a forthcoming book that explores the applicability of theories from economics and cognitive psychology to the behavior of journalists and citizens. Her work has been supported by Harvard University's Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics and Policy and the National Science Foundation. Her articles appear in Political Communication, Women and Politics, the Journal of Politics, Research in Micropolitics, and elsewhere. Dr. Callaghan has been a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University and Rice University and the Ph.D. Director of Quantitative Methods in Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Currently, she is the interim director of the Survey Research Center in the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs where she is leading an interdisciplinary team of faculty in the development of survey methods for hard-to-reach and marginalized populations.

 

 

 

 

Political Science Department

Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs

Texas Southern University

3100 Cleburne Street

Houston, Texas 77004

(713) 313-4803

callaghank@tsu.edu

 

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