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Nicholas A. Valentino

Associate Professor
Associate Professor, Department of Communications Studies
Research Associate Professor, Center for Political Studies
Ph.D., UCLA

4244 ISR
426 Thompson Street
(734) 764 3351
nvalenti@umich.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:

Professor Valentino received his Ph.D. in 1998 from the University of California, Los Angeles. He teaches courses in political communication, public opinion, political socialization, media and group identity, and experimental methods. His research interests focus on the impact of mass media during political campaigns on the attitudes and political behavior of citizens. In particular, he has focused on the impact of political advertising on the criteria citizens use during candidate evaluation. He served as the principal investigator of the Detroit Area Study in 2000 along with Professors Vincent Hutchings and Michael Traugott. He is also Co-Chair of the Media and Identity Research Seminar, an interdisciplinary group of scholars interested in the impact of mass media on the formation, maintenance, and change of group identities in contemporary society. His work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Behavior, Political Communication, Political Research Quarterly, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Urban Affairs Review and in several edited volumes on mass media and political communication.

Selected Publications

  • Valentino, Nicholas A. 1999. “Who Are We on Election Day? Crime News and the Priming of Racial Attitudes during Evaluations of the President.” Public Opinion Quarterly, 63(3):293-320.
  • Valentino, Nicholas A. 2001. “Group Priming in American Elections.” In Rod P. Hart and Daron Shaw (Eds.), Communication and U.S. Elections: New Agendas. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
  • Valentino, Nicholas A., Michael Traugott, and Vincent Hutchings. 2002. “Group Cues and Ideological Constraint: A Replication of Political Advertising Effects Studies in the Lab and in the Field.” Forthcoming at Political Communication.
  • Valentino, Nicholas A. Thomas A. Buhr and Matthew N. Beckmann. 2001. “When the Frame is the Game: Revisiting the Impact of “Strategic” Campaign Coverage on Citizens’ Information Retention.” Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Vol. 78, (1): 93-112.
  • Valentino, Nicholas A. Matthew N. Beckmann and Thomas A. Buhr. 2001. “A Spiral of Cynicism for Some: The Contingent Effects of Campaign News Frames on Participation and Confidence in Government.” Political Communication, forthcoming: 18, 4 (Oct-Dec 2001).
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