About

Joshua Kalla is Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University, with a secondary appointment in Statistics & Data Science. He is also a Resident Fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and the Center for the Study of American Politics. He received his B.A. from Yale and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

His research in American politics lies at the intersection of political behavior, campaigns, and causal inference, with a particular focus on field experimentation. He studies questions such as how political campaigns persuade voters, how interpersonal conversations can reduce prejudice, and how citizens consume and respond to political media. His work has appeared in Science, the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Journal of Politics, among other outlets.

Kalla is a recipient of the Yale Arthur Greer Memorial Prize for outstanding faculty research and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Robert B. Cialdini Prize, awarded for a publication that uses field methods to advance social psychological knowledge with real-world relevance beyond academic social psychology. He serves on the editorial boards of the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and Political Behavior.