Summary
Ryan Baxter-King is an assistant professor of political science. He joined the University of Nevada, Reno in 2025 after receiving his Ph.D. in political science from UCLA.
Baxter-King's research examines how salient events interact with voters’ partisan attachments to shape elections and public opinion in the United States. In particular, his research focuses on those voters who live closest to focusing events, are exposed to salient policy changes, and or whose local communities experience worsening policy outcomes. Methodologically, his work involves original surveys and experiments and also applies causal inference techniques to existing datasets.
He is particularly interested in research at the intersection of politics and public health and has experience collaborating across disciplinary boundaries. During graduate school, he conducted research with researchers in medicine, public health, and psychology at UCLA and Harvard. Before graduate school, he worked at the AIDS Institute (New York State Department of Health) and at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Research interests
- American politics
- Political behavior
- Quantitative methods
Education
- Ph.D., Political Science, UCLA, 2025
- B.A., Political Science and Economics, Haverford College, 2016