John G. Geer, Distinguished Professor of Political Science

Geer works at Vanderbilt University, currently serving as the Editor of The Journal of Politics. Geer's research interests are American politics, with a focus on elections, public opinion, and political communication. Geer has a recent book with University of Chicago Press, In Defense of Negativity. He is currently working on understanding the news media's coverage of negativity and a project that examines the bias Mormon candidates face in American elections with Brett Benson of Vanderbilt and Jennifer Merolla of CGU. Geer is also working on a project with Lynn Vavreck of UCLA that seeks to integrate negativity more explicitly into our understanding of party competition.

Geer teaches courses on American politics, elections, the presidency, and most recently "genetics and politics" with David Bader, a Professor of Cell Biology at Vanderbilt.

This website includes his CV, copies of recent course descriptions, some publicly available data he has collected, a few conference papers, and links to sites of personal interest to Geer. Feel free to browse any of the material.

There are also some pictures of his wife (Cheryl), children (James and Megan), his dogs (Bupkis, Felix, and Jackson), sunsets off his front porch, and his summer home in Vermont.