Faculty Associates
Faculty Associates
Faculty Associates
We're teaming up with Rowan faculty members to promote their political and policy-oriented research. Click below to read up on bios, areas of expertise, and find links to their research.
If you are a Rowan University faculty member interested in promoting your policy research, click to download RIPPAC's 2024 Faculty Associates Application Form (PDF).
Prof. Andrew Gooch (Candidate Policy Positioning, Public Opinion about Issues, Policy-Based Experiments)
Bio & CV
From the Rowan University Department of Political Science and Economics website:
"Andrew Gooch is an Assistant Professor at Rowan University. His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of American public policy, political behavior, and electoral politics. His research is published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals including Political Communication, Political Behavior, Political Science Research Methods, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and others. He is currently working on a book project about policy repositioning (aka politicians "flip-flopping"). Before coming to Rowan, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and the Center for the Study of American Politics. He completed a Ph.D. in political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and before entering academia, he was a project manager at a political polling firm in Washington, D.C."
Research Links
Gooch, Andrew. "Candidate repositioning, valence, and a backfire effect from criticism." American Politics Research 50, no. 6 (2022): 757-768.
Gooch, Andrew, Alan S. Gerber, and Gregory A. Huber. "Evaluations of candidates’ non-policy characteristics from issue positions." Electoral Studies 69 (2021): 102246.
Gooch, Andrew, and Gregory A. Huber. "How issue positions affect candidate performance: experiments comparing campaign donors and the mass public." Political Behavior 42, no. 2 (2020): 531-556.
Gooch, Andrew. "Ripping yarn: experiments on storytelling by partisan elites." Political Communication 35, no. 2 (2018): 220-238.
Gerber, Alan S., Gregory A. Huber, Albert H. Fang, and Andrew Gooch. "Nongovernmental Campaign Communication Providing Ballot Secrecy Assurances Increases Turnout: Results from Two Large-scale Field Experiment." Political Science Research and Methods 6, no. 3 (2018): 613-624.
Prof. Elaine Zundl (Women/Work/Family Policy, Women in STEM/Women of Color in STEM, Worker Protections)
Bio & CV
From the Rowan University Department of Political Science and Economics website:
"Elaine Zundl specializes in social policy, equity in higher education, and the role of policy to advance women trapped in low-wage and low-quality work. Currently pursuing her PhD at Rutgers’ Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, her dissertation uses a mixed-methods methodology to examine the institutional factors that keep women out of computer science majors. Zundl’s research includes analysis of policies designed to support women and their families such as paid family leave, secure scheduling laws, and tax credit programs. Her most recent publication considers how trends associated with the future of work impacts organizations seeking expanded rights for domestic workers. Prior to coming to Rowan University, she was the Project Manager at the Shift Project, a research project that utilizes Facebook and Instagram to investigate the nature and consequences of precarious employment in the service sector located at Harvard’s Kennedy School. Additionally, she served as Research Director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University."
Research Links
Zundl, Elaine. & Rodgers, Yana. van der Muelen. “The Future of Work for Domestic Workers in the United States: Innovations in Technology, Organizing, and Laws,” in Revaluing Work(Ers): Toward a Democratic and Sustainable Future, edited by Schulze-Cleven, Tobias, and Todd E. Vachon, 201-219. Labor and Employment Relations Association Series. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021.
Zundl, Elaine, Daniel Schneider, and Kristen Harknett. “Paid Family Leave and New Jersey’s Service Sector Workforce.” Shift Project Research Brief. Harvard Kennedy School, November 16, 2022. https://shift.hks.harvard.edu/nj_paid_leave/.
Lindemann, Danielle, Dana Britton, and Elaine Zundl. “‘I Don’t Know Why They Make It So Hard Here’: Institutional Factors and Undergraduate Women’s STEM Participation.” International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology 8, no. 2 (2016): 221–41.
Zundl, Elaine, Daniel Schneider, Julia Goodman, Kristen Harknett, and Evelyn Bellew. “Paid Family and Medical Leave in the U.S. Service Sector.” Shift Project Research Brief. Harvard Kennedy School, June 9, 2021. https://shift.hks.harvard.edu/paid-family-and-medical-leave-in-the-u-s-service-sector/.
Zundl, Elaine, Daniel Schneider, Kristen Harknett, and Evelyn Bellew. “Still Unstable: The Persistence of Schedule Uncertainty During the Pandemic.” Shift Project Research Brief. Harvard Kennedy School, January 27, 2022. https://shift.hks.harvard.edu/still-unstable/.
Articles
Op-Ed: NJ’s Domestic Worker Bill of Rights is a first step (NJ Spotlight News, August 2024)