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Caroline J. Tolbert

Professor

Ph.D.: University of Colorado, Boulder, 1996.

Fields: American Politics and Methods (voting and elections and representation, state politics, direct democracy, race/ethnicity, information technology and politics).

Sample Publications: Caroline Tolbert is Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa and the coauthor of a half dozen books and more than thirty articles in peer reviewed scholarly journals.  Her research explores political behavior and voting, elections and representation widely defined. Tolbert is coauthor of Digital Citizenship: The Internet Society and Participation (Cambridge, MIT Press, 2008) and Virtual Inequality: Beyond the Digital Divide (Georgetown University Press, 2003). Digital Citizenship was ranked one of 20 best-selling titles in the social sciences by the American Library Association for 2008. She is also coauthor of Educated by Initiative: The Effects of Direct Democracy on Citizens and Political Organizations in the American States (University of Michigan, 2004), co-editor of Democracy in the States: Experiments in Election Reform (Brookings Institution Press, 2008) and Citizens as Legislators: Direct Democracy in the United States (Ohio State University Press, 1998). Tolbert was the General Program Chair (with Taeku Lee, UC Berkeley) of the 2008 Midwest Political Science Association Meeting. Caroline Tolbert is the former Co-Director of the The University of Iowa Hawkeye Poll (with Davie Redlawsk, Rutgers University). In 2009 she was named a Collegiate Scholar by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa for excellence in teaching and scholarship. Her latest book with David Redlawsk and Todd Donovan is titled Why Iowa? Caucuses, Sequential Elections and Reform of the Presidential Nominating Process (forthcoming 2010, University of Chicago Press).

Recent Award: Caroline Tolbert is the new Collegiate Scholar, honored for excellence in teaching and scholarship or creative work.