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Jeremiah Castle
Associate Professor of Political Science
Political Science
[email protected]Office Hours
Tuesday 2-5pm, Thursday 9-noon, and by email appointment
Biography
I received my BA from Hanover College and my MA and PhD from the University of Notre Dame. I taught at the University of Notre Dame and Central Michigan before coming to MSU Denver in summer 2020.Research Interests
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I maintain an active research agenda using survey research to study public opinion in the United States. My main area of research is what role social identities, including religion, play in political polarization. My recent article with Kyla Stepp, "Partisanship, Religion, and Issue Polarization: A Reassessment" (published in Political Behavior), contributes to the literature on political polarization by offering a new theory of how social group identities contribute to issue polarization, as well as debuting a new empirical measure of issue polarization. My article "New Fronts in the Culture Wars: Partisanship, Religion, and Polarization on Same-Sex Marriage and Transgender Rights," published in American Politics Research, argues that the culture wars have expanded to new issue domains over the last decade, and public opinion on those issues is now polarized along religious lines. I am currently working on a broader book project that re-evaluates James Davison Hunter's "culture wars" thesis.
I also study media & politics, including examining whether and how popular films do, and do not, influence public opinion.
You can learn more about my research on my personal website: https://jeremycastle15.wixsite.com/home
Teaching Interests
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I teach Intro to American Government, Conducting Political Analysis, and upper-level courses including The American Presidency, American Constitutional Law, and Parties, Elections, & Voting Behavior.
Education
PhD in Political Science
University of Notre Dame
MA in Political Science
University of Notre Dame
BA in Political Science
Hanover College
Personal Website
https://jeremycastle15.wixsite.com/home
Published Works
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Castle, J. J., Strachan, C. J., Stepp, K. K. (2026). The Polarized Type: Affective Polarization and Issue Polarization Among the Party-In-The-Electorate. (). Bloomsbury. https://www.amazon.com/Palgrave-Handbook-Fashion-Politics/dp/3031570723
Castle, J. J. . Faith and Community: How Engagement Strengthens Members, Places of Worship, and Society by Rebecca A. Glazier. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 2024. 258 pp. $37.95. Political Science Quarterly,
Stepp, K. K., Castle, J. J. (2024). Looks on Trial: Fashion and the Double Bind Among Female Supreme Court Justices. (). . https://www.amazon.com/Palgrave-Handbook-Fashion-Politics/dp/3031570723
Castle, J. J., Stepp, K. K. (2024). Culture Wars and Hyperpartisan News. (pp 111-119). . https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Conflict-and-Peace-Communication/Connaughton-Pukallus/p/book/9781032490489?srsltid=AfmBOopSesCOY2DZ3MKDtpM63wTTMEQdXr2gJ4rRi729ZskDNwym6jyG
Castle, J. J., Stepp, K. K. (2024). Using the Pen as a Sword: Donald Trump's Use of Unilateral Presidential Power to Fight the Culture Wars. (pp 255-278). University of Pennsylvania Press. https://www.pennpress.org/9781512825626/trump-white-evangelical-christians-and-american-politics/
Castle, J. J., Strachan, J., Stepp, K. K. . War of the Worldviews: Modern Sexism and Polarization on the “Culture War” Over Gendered Issues. .
Castle, J. J., Stepp, K. K. . Mainline Protestants and the 2020 Election. (). .
Castle, J. J. (2023). Review of Before the Religious Right: Liberal Protestants, Human Rights, and the Polarization of the United States by Gene Zubovich (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022).. Perspectives on Politics, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592722003383
Gentry, G. B., Stepp, K. K., Castle, J. J. (2022). Expect the Unexpected: Choices and Challenges in the Political Science PhD Job Market. (). American Political Science Association.
Castle, J. J., Stepp, K. K. (2022). Theorizing and Measuring Issue Polarization Using Online Survey Research. ,
Stepp, K. K., Castle, J. J. (2021). Research Note: Authoritarianism, Racial Resentment, and Attitudes on the Colin Kaepernick Protests. The Social Science Journalhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03623319.2021.1884781.
Castle, J. J., Stepp, K. K. (2021). The Culture War Goes Global: Three Cases of Religious Conflict in Foreign Policy. ORBIS: The Journal for World Affairs, 65(4), 599-617. .
Castle, J. J. (2021). Book Review: American Government 2e. Glen Krutz. Houston, TX: OpenStax/Rice University, 2016. 771p. Free online PDF.. Journal of Political Science Education, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15512169.2021.1901724?journalCode=upse20
Kundmueller, M., Castle, J. J. (2021). When a Law is No Law at All: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Use of Augustine and Aquinas in the Battle Against Segregation. (). Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030614843#aboutAuthors
Castle, J. J., Stepp, K. (2021). Partisanship, Religion, and Issue Polarization in the United States: A Reassessment. Political Behavior, 43(3), 1311-1335. .
Castle, J. J., Jenkins, S., Ortbals, D. C., Poloni-Staudinger, L., Strachan, C. J. (2020). The Effect of the #MeToo Movement on Political Engagement and Ambition in 2018. Political Research Quarterly, 73(4), 926-941. https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912920924824.
Castle, J. J. (2019). Researching How Popular Films Affect Political Attitudes Using Experiments. SAGE Publications Ltd, https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526464675
Castle, J. J., Schoettmer, L. P. (2019). Secularism and Politics. (). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.663
Castle, J. J. (2019). Rock of Ages: Subcultural Religious Identity and Public Opinion Among Young Evangelicals. (pp 223). Temple University Press. http://tupress.temple.edu/book/20000000009910
Castle, J. J. (2019). The Rhetoric of Religious Freedom in the United States. Edited by Eric C. Miller. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. vi+223 pp. $100.00, Cloth, $95.00. Electronic. Politics and Religion, https://doi.org/10.1017/s1755048318000883
Castle, J. J. (2019). New Fronts in the Culture Wars? Religion, Partisanship, and Polarization on Religious Liberty and Transgender Rights in the United States. American Politics Research, 47(3), 650-679. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673x18818169.
Stepp, K. K., Castle, J. J. (2019). Raising the Bar: Maximizing Engaged Student Learning Using the American Mock Trial Association Case State of Midlands v. Dylan Hendricks. Journal of Political Science Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/15512169.2018.1492930
Castle, J. J. (2018). Electoral Choice and Religion: United States. (). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.728
Castle, J. J. (2018). Subcultural Identity and the Evangelical Left: Comparing Liberal Young Evangelicals to Other Young Liberals. (pp 124-143). Temple University Press. http://tupress.temple.edu/book/20000000009526
Castle, J. J., Stepp, K. (2018). Silver screen sorting: Social identity and selective exposure in popular film viewing. The Social Science Journal, 55(4), 487-499. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soscij.2018.04.001.
Castle, J. J., Jesuit, K. D., Williams, A. R. (2017). Introduction and overview. (pp 1-12). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315560342-1
Castle, J. J. (2017). Authoritarianism and Public Opinion on Church and State in the United States. Politics and Religion, 10(1), 57-81. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1755048316000432.
Castle, J. J., Layman, C. G., Campbell, E. D., Green, C. J. (2017). Survey Experiments on Candidate Religiosity, Political Attitudes, and Vote Choice. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 56(1), 143-161. https://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.12311.
Castle, J. J. (2015). The Electoral Impact of Public Opinion on Religious Establishment. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 54(4), 814-832. https://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.12228.
Adkins, T., Castle, J. J. (2014). Moving Pictures? Experimental Evidence of Cinematic Influence on Political Attitudes. Social Science Quarterly, 95(5), 1230-1244. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.12070.