David Broockman is an Associate Professor at the Travers Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he serves as the Director of the Berkeley Center for American Democracy. Broockman earned his BA from Yale University in 2011 and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2015. He previously served as an Assistant Professor and an Associate Professor of Political Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Broockman is the author of over three dozen peer-reviewed scholarly essays focusing on American politics. Broockman’s research has overturned conventional wisdom regarding the nature, extent, and consequences of political polarization in the American public; how political campaigns and organizations can more effectively persuade voters; and how to have productive conversations to bridge divides and reduce prejudice. He has received a number of scholarly awards, including an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, the American Political Science Association Public Opinion and Voting Behavior Section’s Emerging Scholar Award, the UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Award for Research in the Public Interest, the Joseph L. Bernd Award for the best paper published in the Journal of Politics, and the Leamer-Rosenthal Award for Open Social Science. His research has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, New York Times Magazine, and on NPR’s This American Life.