Shanto Iyengar is an American political scientist and professor of political science at

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. He is also the Harry & Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford, the director of Stanford's Political Communication Lab, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Biography

Iyengar received his bachelor's degree from Linfield College in 1968 and his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1972. In 1973, he joined the faculty of

Kansas State University Kansas State University (KSU, Kansas State, or K-State) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas, United States. It was opened as the state's land-grant college in 1863 and was the first public instit ...

as an assistant professor, where he remained until 1979. He taught at Yale University as an assistant professor from 1983 to 1985, and then taught at

Stony Brook University Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is one of the State University of New York system's ...

and the University of California, Los Angeles before joining Stanford's faculty in 1998.

Research

Iyengar is known for his work on the role of the news media in contemporary politics. This includes work he conducted with Dartmouth College political scientist Sean J. Westwood, in which they analyze partisan divisions in American politics.

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