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 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).