Professor of Political Science, Grinnell College
Director of the Rosenfield Program in Public Affairs, International Relations, and Human Rights and Professor of Political Science, with a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. Ms. Trish is a generalist in U.S politics, with political parties, electoral politics and technology frequently at the intersection of her teaching and scholarship. Her research focus at present is 2020 Iowa caucus politics, especially as it relates to campaign staff, technology and the new virtual caucus option.
Recently, her article “Big Data under Obama and Trump: The Data-Fueled U.S. Presidency” was published in Politics and Governance, and – as a member of the Diversity Scholars Network at the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) – she contributed to the series Voting and Equity in the United States. Additionally, her comments and analyses of contemporary politics have been published in a variety of media outlets.
Jul 07, 2022 16:11 pm UTC| Politics
For the past few election cycles, the quartet of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina has had a lock on the early spots in the Democratic Partys presidential nomination process. But that may be about to...
Oct 09, 2020 08:00 am UTC| Politics
President Donald Trump may have eschewed masks and distancing in this pandemic year of campaigning, resulting in both his diagnosis of COVID-19 and the spread of the disease in the White House. But others have figured...
Iowa caucuses: It's not just candidates who face uncertainty – it's their campaign workers, too
Feb 03, 2020 12:29 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Soon, there might be a little clarity about the Democratic nomination race, maybe even for those workers in Iowa who staff the presidential campaigns. 2020 is a banner year for staff in Iowa, given a wide field of...
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