Allyson Shortle

Curriculum Vitae:

Education:

• Ph.D., Ohio State University
• B.A. (summa cum laude), Union College
  

Dr. Shortle is an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma, where she studies group identity in the context of American political behavior. She also serves as a faculty member for Latinx Studies and Women and Gender Studies. She runs OU’s Community Engagement + Experiments Laboratory (CEEL), Oklahoma City’s Community Poll (Exit Poll), and OU’s Democracy Survey of OU freshmen. For fun, she lends research support to organizations seeking to increase civic engagement and improve the physical and mental health of their communities. At the doctoral level, Dr. Shortle teaches courses on group identity, public opinion/political psychology, and American political behavior.

Dr. Shortle’s Cambridge University Press book, The Everyday Crusade: Christian Nationalism in American Politics (2022 – w. Eric L. McDaniel and Irfan Nooruddin), examines the relationship between American religious exceptionalism and prejudicial and antidemocratic attitudes.

She is a 2024–25 Public Fellow with the Public Religion Research Institute.

Research Interests:

Race, Religion, Gender, Immigration, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, and Policy Attitudes