Dr. Erin C. Cassese is a Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Delaware. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Stony Brook University in 2007. Her dissertation project, Culture Wars as Identity Politics, won the American Political Science Association’s Political Psychology Section Best Dissertation Award. Her current research examines voter psychology, with an emphasis on the role of gender in American political campaigns and elections. This work has appeared in Political Behavior, Political Research Quarterly, Political Psychology, Politics & Gender and a number of other scholarly journals. Cassese’s scholarship has been cited by national media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vox, and FiveThirtyEight. Cassese also studies partisan conflict, with an emphasis on psychological processes such as affective polarization and dehumanization.