Joshua R. Thorp
I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science (Public Opinion) at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. My research focuses on public opinion and political psychology in the United States and other advanced democracies. I study the social and political processes that shape political cohesion and collective action within social groups, with a particular focus on the politics of disability.I received my Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2025. My dissertation was awarded Best Dissertation by the APSA Political Psychology Section. My research has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Political Psychology and the Journal of Experimental Political Science, and is generously supported by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust, the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan, the Rapoport Family Foundation, and Time-Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences (TESS).