Nathan P. Kalmoe

Nathan Kalmoe is Associate Professor of Political Communication at Louisiana State University in the Manship School of Mass Communication and Department of Political Science. He studies contentious mass political behavior with psychology, communication, and history—especially mass partisanship, ideology, & violence. He has written three books and nearly two dozen academic articles in that direction, and that work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Atlantic, Vox, and other popular outlets. His 1st book, Neither Liberal nor Conservative (w/ Don Kinder), shows the scarcity & contingency of mass ideology. His award-winning 2nd book With Ballots & Bullets shows the reciprocal links between mass partisanship & violence in the American Civil War. His 3rd book, with Lily Mason, investigates Radical American Partisanship today (2022). Other projects use experiments, surveys, & unobtrusive measures to examine racially fraught social media, party-group reputations, and communication effects conditioned by audience traits. In sum, he investigates fractious roots of public opinion and action as mobilized by communication.