Elizabeth Coggins joined the faculty of Colorado College in the fall of 2014. She was a post-doctoral fellow at Washington University in St. Louis for the 2013-2014 academic year, after earning her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2013 (American Politics & Methodology). Elizabeth studies United States politics, public opinion, ideological identification, and political psychology. Her co-authored book, The Dynamics of Public Opinionwas published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. Elizabeth’s research broadly confronts an enduring puzzle in US politics: How can liberal policy programs remain widely supported and liberal politicians continue to win elections when the liberal identity itself is out-favored by the conservative identity nearly two-to-one? Presently Elizabeth teaches Introduction to United States Politics and Government, Race & Politics, Ideology in the United States, Public Policymaking, Political Science Research Methods, and Congress.
