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Please join the American Politics workshop as they host Brendan Nyhan, James O. Freedman Presidential Professor and Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, for a talk on Bright Line Watch and the State of American Democracy.

Brendan Nyhan is the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. Nyhan's research, which focuses on misperceptions about politics and health care, has been published in journals including Nature, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Nature Human Behaviour, Pediatrics, and Vaccine. Nyhan was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023 and previously was named a Guggenheim Fellow by the Guggenheim Foundation, an Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and a Belfer Fellow by the Anti-Defamation League. Nyhan also received the Emerging Scholar Award for the top scholar in the field within 10 years of their Ph.D. by the American Political Science Association's section on Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior.

Nyhan received his Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Duke University and previously served as a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research and Professor of Public Policy at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.